The power of nothing
in a world where nothing existed
(it was very quiet)
The nothing people had no lives
and therefore nothing to live for
The nothing preacher preached nothing
And so there was only nothing to believe in
There were no people fat or thin
So there was nothhing to diet for
Nothing slunk about or did he or she or it?
unseen not even a private detective could account for nothings movements
1 Because there was no private detective
2 because there was only nothing, sexless unseen unquantifiable
So how did the nothing people know in their absence, that nothing
existed?
The silence was heavy with pregnant pauses
Nothing appeared
at the end of the world or,
in the beginning
before one living microbe made it's miniscule appearance
There was absolutely nothing
Absolute in being simple or complex in nothingness
An acute on chronic attack of perpetual nothing
It is powerful
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poem by Yvette Smith
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