DEFENDING THE TRINITY

I don't know ... this may be right ... there are only two things ... reflections reverberations of two other distinctions ... of the beautiful and the ugly ... of the true and the false ... and these two the good and the bad are everything but primal ... and what a wearing down between the two ... and what a distance from the primal ... the wearing away and the distance involved tempt the mind to float away out into infinite space ... from one distinction to another and all derived and each more distant than the last ... but what's the point if you can't get back to the one thing necessary with all your vapid theorizing and shallow inspiration ... an old man climbing one flight too many out of breath and frantic out of patience ... this chisel point tapping against the shell of your security ... good this is bad ... good this is bad ... what is it what is it you think they're trying to say ... their timpanning distraction what is it what do they want ... they clutch at your sleeve they tug at your elbow they pull you where you do not want to go ... in the opposite direction not to the one but away ... you cannot stay here at two ... they pull you away to more ... pull you to three