<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=566648" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Not About This</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not about the classic rivers<br>of mythology, not about Acheron, <br>river of woe with its lines of unemployed<br>holding their migraines in their hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or Cocytus, river of lamentation<br>where the elderly have gone<br>to grieve their condition.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It cannot be this.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not the river of fire, <br>the lava flowing from another volcanic shudder<br>into the homes of the living & the dead, <br>& into the stories of new generations.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For these are byproducts, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">shining as they are-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not about the river of forgetfulness, <br>inviting as the night visits the tortured mind.<br>No, not this, or the waters of hate<br>& the butchered bodies stacked along shorelines<br>& the lost women trying to find their sons, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or the river of return, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">not the red river of consolation<br>wound about the heart<br>& through the vineyards, <br>or how our loves came to be, <br>then left us again to ourselves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not about the oldest & saddest river, <br>the river of time, with flashes of metallic film<br>sliding by, gathering momentum<br>& the sufaces of faces, <br>the faces of phantoms, <br>(I have seen myself among them.) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It cannot be about theology, <br>or if it is, it is the theology of celestial mechanics, <br>the giant narrative of everything, <br>the source of energy, (& its forms,) <br>crunching itself out through the heavens.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Gessner">Michael Gessner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=566648" data-title="Not About This de Michael Gessner" data-description="It is not about the classic rivers of mythology, not about Acheron, river of woe with its lines of unemployed holding their migraines in their hands. Or Cocytus, river of lamentation where the elderly have gone to grieve their condition. It can..."></div> </div> </div>

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