A newsletter about the stories we tell ourselves, have always told ourselves, and will continue to tell ourselves until it's all over.

Rising Sun (Landrace #13)

Jan 17, 2023

The difference between

///divinity and irony///

is getting harder to spot.

The sun rises in the East

where the Maitreya sits

in radiant warmth. The books

tell me about the Buddha who is

wrathful, wise, compassionate;

a complex deity for a sustainable society.

People always make new gods,

as life gets more complicated. Unless

there is a great force to suffocate them;

a wind strong enough to carry Portuguese ships.

I like to think Bartolomeu Dias is in hell,

but it seems more likely that it’s hell

from which he traveled. The gods

that give us comfort have been killed by the Pope.