The wheel of the quivering meat
conception
Turns in the void expelling human beings,
Pigs, turtles, frogs, insects, nits,
Mice, lice, lizards, rats, roan
Racinghorses, poxy bucolic pigtics,
Horrible unnameable lice of vultures,
Murderous attacking dog-armies
Of Africa, Rhinos roaming in the
jungle,
Vast boars and huge gigantic bull
Elephants, rams, eagles, condors,
Pones and Porcupines and Pills—
All the endless conception of living
beings
Gnashing everywhere in Consciousness
Throughout the ten directions of space
Occupying all the quarters in & out,
From supermicroscopic no-bug
To huge Galaxy Lightyear Bowell
Illuminating the sky of one Mind—
Poor! I wish I was free
Of the slaving meat wheel
and safe in heaven dead
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The wheel of samsara
From guest Gunner Deery (contact)
I'm sure, but would love to see a study, that the wheel of the quivering meat conception is a reference to the wheel of samsara and the process of entrapment by conscious beings, ie not plants but animals. Aka meat. Since it is our everyday consciousness that causes us affliction and suffering, according to buddhism, the gnashing everywhere in consciousness throughout all of our conceptual scheme of spatial temporal relationships is another fitting metaphor for that which enslaves us to the wheel of the quivering meat conception -
Not sure
From guest Brittany D (contact)
I'm not sure I understand this one, other than maybe he hates being part of the normal life cycle... He wants to die. I rather like all those animals, and I appreciate life. I'm not sure I comprehend his meanings. -
From guest Volkan GÜLÜM (contact)
Does the poet praises a universal being or a universal culture or what can be said humanity? I feel I can not touch the slightest meaning in this great poem. "From supermicroscopic no-bug To huge Galaxy Lightyear Bowell Illuminating the sky of one Mind" -
This is one of my favorites. I kind of understand how he feels.
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i dont know
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