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The Tried and True Meaning of Transcendence, is that the Present is Possibly Transcendent in and of Itself


by Amy Geeleher Burt


           Topical solutions to today's problems of misanthropy and self indulgence leave the writer to boughts of frustration and temperamental shifts in the time space continuum, if this were so, there would be worm holes apparent in the solar system, allowing space travel to be ascertainable in modern times.

            But this isn't, so the writer finds herself indulging the ego and self importance stacking plates in the corner of a nearby local diner, leaving minute particles on the surface, spreading the inevitable disease inherent in modern people, modern times that curtail the possibility of compassion and revolution.

            Rabbits are no longer suitable house pets, she surmises one day. And it is because they prefer freedom to the veritable confines of cage wires and household walls. Their skin is much more suited for the floors of forest thickets and vegetation to abound. The folded pieces of her heart came tumbling down the sloping back of a lop-eared rabbit by the name of Harold, who by chance was a follower of the lord.

             He would pray to his god and perchance the dream for salvation from the bondage of such walls and wires found in the loving arms of his owner.

           

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