1.
Let there be
Then God said
And God called
and God said to them
2.
At God’s funeral
the name itself
will be buried
the name
being
the thing
No God but God
and Moses wrote:
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain.
3.
Nothing is so like God as silence. (Meister Eckhardt)
4.
Abracadabra: from the Aramaic, avra kehdabram, I create
what I name.
Before humans, nothing had a name
we named everything
Begin naming
you will never reach the end of it
If there’s anything to discuss
we’ve named it
or will –
any second now.
5.
The sound waves made by your vocal cords travel in dry
air at 0.2 miles per second in a straight line until they meet an
obstacle. If the obstacle is soft, the
waves are absorbed and vanish. If the
obstacle is hard, the waves ricochet. An
unimpeded wave will join other sound waves until they all die away…
6.
My name is Richard
Douglas Eugene Karma Shenphen Namgyal Aaron Wells, a.k.a., O.G.
7.
Ar-tic-u-la-tion
makin’ me late
keepin’ me waitin’ (Carol King)
If I feel
but can’t say
what I feel
then what…?
Give me some words
for how I hurt.
8.
For years, as a
regular occurrence I would hear, “Richard,” or “Dick,” being called by my mom,
by a friend, or an unrecognizable voice.
At first, I’d stop
in my tracks, turn around, and look to see who was calling.
Later on, I'd just keep walking.
No one has called
in a while.
9.
What is the wave length
of the Ark’s big broadcast
of alphabets on fire
letters
I can’t read
words
I don’t understand
names
I can’t pronounce
languages, gibberish, truth
10.
sound of the whirlwind
sound of burning
11.
NASA tells us that in the Perseus cluster of galaxies
located 250 million light years from Earth there are black holes. Sound waves have traveled hundreds of
thousands of light year away from the cluster’s central black hole. The sound is a B Flat, 57 octaves below
middle C (our 8 note speech octave,) one million, billion times lower than the
lowest sound perceived by the human ear.
12.
Can’t hear the prayers
or longings
of ancestors
more recent than ancient
Radio waves are electromagnetic waves and travel at the
speed of light. Sound waves from radio
broadcasts have been picked up 20 light years from Earth. (A light year is the distance light travels
in one year – about 6 trillion miles, or in this case 120 trillion miles in twenty years.
(120,000,000,000,000)
I can hear Hitler
anytime I want
14.
the discordance of ghosts.
