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SPIDERWEB

Time and Time and Time--

Presentpastfuture welded;

Now I

As Then I

And Next I will.

Spiderweb! Time--
I was caught by birth:
Death will disengage me.

I remember!

Before the womb was Existence Place.
Beyond Time and its bastard offspring

In Vacuum sensationless,

The I that was was I rested,

Bodiless,

With a galaxy of others.

No Spiderweb then. Then,
Peace.

Now I am) caught in a Spiderweb.

I struggle
(It is in Man to struggle)
I struggle and become yet more entangled;

And ever closer comes the Spider,
Wrapping the yet-living in silken threads of Time and

Place

Entombing them in the myriad threads of Here and
Now.

Oh! Arachne comes to me--
Death, free me!

P. B. Alexander

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