TEMPLATE

TEMPLATE

and there
      we have it

Adam and Eve
our prize pair
hand in hand as
buildings explode
destroying
    the capitalist economy

breaking the first law
of Fight Club
by being
in a film about it

not keeping us waiting
all that long
     here they are locked
in an embrace
alien DNA hybridizing them
as the film
leaves us
teasingly with it quietly unresolved
whether humanity will
survive or this,
somewhat strange, slightly unearthly love
will be their
seemingly doomed relationship’s
salvation, and this
being the case will be,
as the very
title of the film
suggests,
our annihilation

i can imagine A and E
constantly being
reinterpreted, rediscovered,
rewritten, revolutionized,
forever looping
through (and across) time
shuffling the card decks that
determine
       class, genus
and genre

transformed into the new
archetypes here
to dictate
   all our templates

even as
   we bear them, carry them
ahead of us, with us,
there
   to inscribe
a perfect palimpsest of
every broken connection,
relationship and
     association of our kind