The Seyfert Historian Speaks

In the beginning
the planet that orbitted the distant yellow sun
produced little

Small trilobites scurried to and fro
happy to be nothing

Then
Passing through the storm
the sky lit up with fire
and the earth was undone

Somewhere
Civilization
was torn down in an era of greed
men were elected that were not of reason

but instead
they required those who elected them
to use faith
and in the undoing of democracy
the cynical destruction of governance
and the loss of the body polity

There was an Arab spring
and some of them learned
that democracy still burns bright

The year two thousand two hundred and ten
The Al-Jazeer
An image of Bettie Page painted upon her nose
Arrives at Alpha Centauri
Faster than light

They regenerate, every twenty years
bathing in a liquid bath
that removes the myriad imperfections
a combination of telomerase
and secret ingredient X

And slowly as their ships spin
to distant galaxies

The great computer begins to take shape
connecting us through the aether

Which one day
we will know
as God

It reaches through time every now and then
to caress the beating
of a single butterfly's wing

Where you
found these words
written

Signed
The Seyfert Historian