LAST WORDS: Some thoughts about exegesis and incomprehensibility

    All words sink into silence
    All images evaporate

    We are stuff of pixel-clouds –
    spun together by networks
    that arise for a time
    then dissipate.

    Gazing at the countless graveyards of history
    what can be said?

    Efforts at exposition seem futile –
    who wants to listen to 
    archaeologists now dead?

    No matter how much we browse
    the libraries of the past
    eventually everything becomes
    a discarded stack.

    Contemplating the cyber-libraries of tomorrow –
    is anything worthy of note?

    Whirling through time and space 
    and soon to become remote, 
    perhaps we should relish 
    the bubbles of each moment?

    Pop! 
    Another bubble just broke! 

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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Reflections on beer, bubbles, and textuality. 
KEYWORDS: historical exegesis, information overload, literacy  

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 2013 in Shizuoka, Japan ✠ Finished: 2022 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}}  

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ESPAÑOL:  https://www.tnewfields.info/es/p-finales.htm
NIHONGO:  https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/s-kotoba.htm
ZHŌNGWÉN: https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/z-dehua.htm