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A tape memory

The seasons change people.
Again every year.
They have a deep 
resounding 
and lasting effect 
on the psyche.
Even more so than 
the weather 
or the amount of sunlight 
one is exposed to. 

Now I want to believe that 
it's all because of 
magnetic fields 
and planetary alignments 
but maybe 
just maybe it runs a little deeper 
than that. 

Is a genetic predisposition 
not a material translation 
of the aetherial concept 
of predestination? 
Why is there an innate system 
of recollection to support 
the process of adaptation?
Why does evolution have 
a memory 
to begin with?

Why do we inherit 
anything? 

And why does our mind 
play what we think are 
cruel tricks on us?
Making us believe 
we remember things from past lives.
Enabling us to reach beyond 
the normal thoughts. 
Lodging an inbred set of doubts 
in our hearts
gut
and mind. 
A natural suspicion 
that the four evils
have been trying to oppress
for the past six thousand years. 

The four evils being
politics 
the market
religion
and tradition.  
Spawned by the supreme monstrocity
that we all call 
culture 
and which we would defend to the death 
for some obscure but enduring reason.

Don't subdue 
that lingering 
and reemerging hesitation.
The elitist circles 
have been feeding on our 
confusions 
for too long. 

It is time for some sort 
of reaction 
erratic and unguided 
as it may be.
It needs to be unraveled. 

The irregularities 
are too countless 
and too refined 
to be dismissed 
as worthless. 

No matter 
by what authority. 

I vote for something 
more objective 
and transcending 
than mere culture 
to define our standards. 

Something that is a lesser servant 
of unnatural interests 
and more aware of 
the limitless dimensions 
that surround us.

Welcoming 
the irrevocable 
catharsis 
we so intensely need. 

What I'm really saying is 
that in the entirety of all 
we are not separated. 
We are as one. 

But there is a universe of 
interference. 
Blocking the way. 

There is no way 
to cut through it. 
But at some point 
we will find a bypass 
that works for us. 

A path around it.