№ 622: Let By God Be Bye God (a solution)

Krypton Finite, June 20

God is not omniscient

nor even proficient.

I suspect
Dunning-Kruger Effect.

They say God made the world — 

which is (I guess) possible — 

then took the position

of not being responsible

for all of the bother

and all of the fuss,

so all of the messes

are down to us?

A weak alibi.

Not even pig swill.

I mean, after all,

who gave us “free will”?

And if it's “free will”

that makes things go rotten

I'm sure we agree

we're misbegotten

and that our maker,

who I needn't name,

is a ball breaker 

and solely to blame.

“True believers”

do not have the guts

to look God in the eye

saying, “Listen, you putz.

WTF were you thinking,

you egomaniac,

with this idiotic

universe hack,

where in order to live

you have to kill.
(Is that the way

you get your thrills  —

making all things compete

to breed and eat?)

“And, pardon me,
herbivores are no exception,

since plants also demonstrate

some sort of perception

and a sort of will

for they, too, kill
with alacrity
and seeming impunity

given the time
and opportunity.

“In the beginning
when it was just you —
endless time on on your hands
with nothing to do,
did you think to yourself,
‘Why does nothing adore me?
Why not create creatures
who'll grovel before me?’

“Or did you do

everything only
because you were alone

and feeling lonely,

wanting a friend —

or something like that?

Maybe next time,

just get a cat?”

№ 616: Free Will Loop Riddle

SPIRAL, June 12

IF we cannot choose to be left or right handed

how can we choose to be

EVEN pretending to be open minded

has more than a hint of seek and you’ll find

IT in this instance is unreasoned insistence

we’re immune completely to FATE has no meaning for thinking beings who can choose either fork when we come to an

we’re immune completely to CIRCUMSTANCE enhances our chance to choose any fork when we come to an

IF we cannot choose to be right or left handed. . .

№ 612: Free Will. . .Until (eh, mate?)

LIKE FREE LUNCH ONLY MORESO, June 6

We may have a little bit of free will.
Until we're waylaid by puberty.
Ovaries ripen, testes descend.
And then:
chronic, lifelong lack of salubrity.

We become a scramble
of pubic hair brambles,
mammary glands, facial stubble.
Then it is only a matter of time
before we find we're in trouble.

Fullness of lips,
biceps and hips:
the deceiving tips
of the sexberg.
Alluring means
developed by genes
to confuse the senses
and override reason.
We come into season —
defeated, defenseless —
and as intended
mating commences.

It may appear
this is our idea.
Tommyrot!
It is not!

[updated 6/8/2019 9:54 pm]

No. CLXXVI: Gone Viral (Bacteria The Future?)

Our DNA contains roughly 100,000 pieces of viral DNA. Altogether, they make up about 8 percent of the human genome. — NYT: Ancient Viruses Are Buried in Your DNA (Paywall)

Our whole worldview is antibacterial. They’re out there. Shoot to kill. Build a wall! Which makes perfect sense for the tiny percentage of microbes that make us sick, but misses the vast majority that make us what we are. — NYT: Human Cells Make Up Only Half Our Bodies. A New Book Explains Why. (Paywall)

While these may be

fake news distorts,

what if there's something

to these reports?

If we contain multitudes,

some good, some bad...

they better speak ENGLISH,

I hasten to add.

If we're conglomerated

with oodles of “ick”...

Don't know about you?

Me, I feel sick.

Far be it from me

to make a big fuss

but this raises the question

are we really us?

With these different thingies

making us whole,

ya just gotta wonder

who's in control?

Could the free will

that defines you and me

be down to the whims

of an amoeboid committee?