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
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