Poetry Reading: THE BLACK SHUTTLE IS PASSING OVERHEAD, by Lawrence Bridges
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Narrated by Val Cole
POEM:
i. THE BLACK SHUTTLE IS PASSING OVERHEAD
ii. The Chumash (California) referred to meteors as Alakiwohoch,
which simply meant “shooting star.” They believed a meteor was a
person’s soul on its way to the afterlife.
iii. The black shuttle is passing overhead, sent each month into space to
orbit its cargo over our heads, and then to rest – coffins stacked like
hives, pumped with foam for stability, all with little spring
launchers to push them home (toward earth). An idea of
Amazon.com and Tesla to enter the funeral business and top each
other with the most expensive funeral: quarter million per, after the
Chumash conceit that shooting stars are souls passing to the
afterlife, coffins with carbonite beds, sprung to burn in terrible arcs
across deceased family’s night sky. Burial in the stratosphere: clean,
sudden, awesome, and godlike. Will wait for favorable skies.
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