9 | "A Day and Night of Brahma" [pantoum]

You may find it's a little bit hard now keeping up
but you don't just want to sit out the 21st century
when no human gullet can drain the entire cup
might a smidge of wise selection serve for strategy?
but you don't just want to sit out the 21st century
though one hundred and sixty lives might seem excessive
might a smidge of wise selection serve for strategy?
I presume this chat won't render you apprehensive?

though one hundred and sixty lives might seem excessive
it's not a remarkably Herculean statistic
I presume this chat won't render you apprehensive?
metaphysical nitty-gritty can sound sadistic
it's not a remarkably Herculean statistic
consider the length of a Day and Night of Brahma!
metaphysical nitty-gritty can sound sadistic
but it makes for a wonderfully mammoth sense of drama

consider the length of a Day and Night of Brahma!
you could handily look it up in the Wikipedia
but it makes for a wonderfully mammoth sense of drama
for the cosmos is so creative! what multi-media!
you could handily look it up in the Wikipedia
in every Kali Yug   you can look it up!
for the cosmos is so creative! what multi-media!
you may find it's a little bit hard now keeping up



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Responsive to reading this opening passage from William Grimes' review essay in the New York Times entitled "Learning How to Read Slowly Again" (September 22, 2006):

The demise of print looks as if it will be a long, drawn-out affair. John Sutherland, the chairman of last year’s Man Booker Prize Committee, offers an arresting statistic: Today more novels are published in one week than Samuel Johnson had to deal with in a decade. As he calculates it in “How to Read a Novel,” it would take approximately 163 lifetimes to read the fiction currently available, at the click of a mouse, from Amazon.com.

Day of Brahma (Wikipedia); and from the same source, see also Kali Yuga and Time in Hindu mythology.

This is no. 9 in a sequence, Early Autumn Pantoums