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The Sweet Undoing of Hubris
Sometimes we forget the world's curves are a polished orb.
Sometimes we forget that bear-backed hobbling homosapiens
dragged themselves from trees to spaceships.
Sometimes we forget that we are spinning
and that our minds, too, are spinning,
spinning like the twirl of a dreidel as firing
synapses glint the startling flash of silver.
Sometimes we forget that we cannot control that spinning,
and that despite those ivory flares and our
tenacity and the vigor with which we wind
and wind and wind and wind and then release—
Grasping…
flailing…
falling.
I wanted to remind you that the world is still round.
I wanted to remind you that the flesh upon our backs
will one day remerge with dirt, and that
as we quail six feet beneath, our genomes
will no longer froth with dynamism.
I wanted to remind you that we cling to livestock like cavemen
clung to splintered spheres. Indeed, we are spinning, but
I wanted to remind you that the ball joints of our minds
churn as axles in a windmill, sitting
atop a larger, indifferent rotary.
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Arthur Sadrian has been an avid writer and novelist since his crayon days. He has written over a dozen novels, novellas, novelettes and poetry books by his own initiative and is published and forthcoming in literary magazines such as Beltway Quarterly, Down in the Dirt and Teen Ink. He has also served as a Junior Editor on Polyphony Lit, Chief Content Officer at a startup, Copy Editor of his school’s yearbook committee and is alumni of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio.