Monday Poem

Matryoshka Boxes

Ah, to think outside the box.
But this box is too big —more than
light years across (limitless in fact)
so thinking out there has been a problem
and (with the way it’s been)
seems to be pretty much impossible

A thought that big
(a thought outside this box)
would be divine

To think outside this box
requires a perspective well beyond
the confines of a FedEx container
or even the boxes that were
the World Trade Center:

                                                two boxes
fools were thinking outside of
while simultaneously cogitating
within another:
                                                the box
that’s been our cage
since Cain killed Abel 

                                                two boxes
they incinerated with the
psychopathic bliss of someone opening
the box once belonging to Pandora;
a box out of which grim thoughts flew
to be reconceived and reworked
outside of 
                                                 a box
within our box
within a box
upon god’s table

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by Jim Culleny, 7/1/11