The Stars®Us

Peter Dodge

 
 
 

If you go out there, they say, some quad
rillion dodecathillion miles over
there [pointing] you would find
a corner of the universe where
there is no light no star no
no white no blue no nothing
no, nothing. No, they say
[pointing] nothing. It's very dark.

If we journey there, you and me,
together --- we could find a corner
of the universe out of every
star's way where we could see
no north no south no east no west
nothing by nothing do west nothing
(save you)
see nothing
(save you),
nothing
(save you)
(and me).

In that all over darkness
we could be left perfectly
forever (forever) to explore
every corner of you (me), and me (you)
without any people or beasts
(or stars, for that matter)
to offer suggestions, alter
ations alter
cations
agitations.
So that we (you and me) could grad
ually transform ourselves into the uni
versal trans
formed
bi
polar
i
za
tion
trans
 uni
  ver
   sal
  love
 space
station.

We would pass on 500,000,000 or so quarks,
merging into 500,000,000,000 or so
blue giant white dwarf alpha
zeta eternal macro love-yous:
merging into dark mirrorspace
dark soul all souls night in plu
perfect darkness there where
in the last pass of the uni
verse we pass
all under
 standing
  to merge
   in a new
   macro
  mega
 meta
uni
 verse:
  the two of us
   together the two
    of us we two
   here at the beginning
  here at the begin
 here at the be
here at wee too
 weee
  begin
   again
    weeeeee