Teotihuacan and Joseline

First

I was going to poeticize

about Teotihuacan

and then I saw a commercial

about love at first taste

so I got all teary

until I remembered that

I was trying

to figure out

what Teotihuacan was

all about

until another video from

Love & Hip Hop

caught my eye

and all these women

who weren’t Joseline

were talking about Joseline

which showed how really insignificant

they and she

had to think they were

my mind gradually returned to

knowledge

and it would have been suddenly

had I not suffered from feelings

of insignificance myself of course

until history

and

another Japanese genius

trying to discover things

I think

most Americans don’t even turn back

the page to remember

called me…..

something

about the Aztecs

or the Mayans

or the Olmecs perhaps

wanting more value for their money

like bitcoins

except the currency

was pyramids

and the customer

was God(s)

and I don’t know

if I need to be

an archeologist or

an astronomist or

an anthropologist

to understand what Teotihuacan

was really for

I’m sure if I stare at the stars long enough

and rearrange those broken pieces

of bone and skull precisely enough

and think about the gradations of

language as it passes through

the mouths of people

just talking to each other long enough

to get a ham sandwich

or

just mouthing any combination of sounds

and/or words that might let another know

hey, I love you……

I would realize that

human ambition

is not more complex than

being acted upon by nature

and wanting

to do anything

or almost anything

to stay alive

and feel more significant

I don’t see the difference between

Joseline

and

the man who put one rock

on top of the next

and called it a pyramid

everything is

a piece of something bigger

something greater

and no one

could ever get where they are

now

starting from scratch

because

if we can’t google it

we really, really, really

don’t know how to know it