I come from the walls

Triangles and sticks

My mother had no breasts

So I fed off myself

Long before I lost my father’s name

From the beginning I stood on my feet

Learned what bullshit was

From reading classic books

I neglect history

Have made enough of my own

I am the first and last of my kind

Not a monkey man

But a man of the mind

Fragments are the answer to slowing time

And if you survive a thousand falls

You’ll evolve into what I am

The inhuman voice

From a different age

Past and future fused

The philosopher sage

I hear colors

Smell words

Touch feelings

Taste sounds

I am what the ancients called clown

A master of oral lore

Heartless but undamaged

Ruined but remade

Logic intensified

I came from the walls

But my fall was from the clouds

*”Freeing Me” was first published by the Rusty Nail.

I treat every end like a beginning

And every beginning like it will never end

A wisdom to know but

No wisdom to follow