Phoenix

A twin no less absurd than the double-‘mythed’ Sisyphus, Camus may have pronounced had he cynicism and contradiction resolved; but time was a bird with a boulder accessoried so scribe and philosopher could conspire to trip and trip again the helpless and hopeless the hopeful and confident, so poet could harvest the lyrical the student a degree or two the philosopher a cryptic garden the powerful the right to strut and scatter upon barren land seeds meticulously engineered to guaranteed sustainabilities of the most primitive of accumulation and leave as crumb and consolation a tear or two or more.

Malinda Seneviratne