Name: What Then Is Evil?
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Description: words by D.H. Lawrence

What Then Is Evil?

from Last Poems by Bob Arellano

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Oh, in the world of the flesh of man
iron gives the deadly wound
and the wheel starts the principle of all evil.

Oh, in the world of things
the wheel is the first principle of evil.

But in the world of the soul of man
there, and there alone lies the pivot of pure evil
only in the soul of man, when it pivots upon the ego.

When the mind makes a wheel which turns on the hub of the ego
and the will, the living dynamo, gives the motion and the speed
and the wheel of the conscious self spins on in absolution, absolute
absolute, absolved from the sun and the earth and the moon,
absolute consciousness, absolved from strife and kisses
absolute self-awareness, absolved from the meddling of creation
absolute freedom, absolved from the greatest necessities of being
then we see evil, pure evil
and we see it only in man
and in his machines.

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from Last Poems, released February 5, 2021

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Bob Arellano Talent, Oregon

90's-band survivor. Lost album FISH+CRABS with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Shelbyville gang available 1st time in >20 years on candy-apple red vinyl & digital; HAVANA CLUB with Jasper Speicher downloadable or just $1 more for factory-pressed rum-label CD; MR. LOVABLE fifteen never-heard solo tracks & LAST POEMS with Bonnie Billy & Jodie Jean Marston now streaming. Follow for blue-moon news blasts! ... more

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