gray materia

“All in all is all we are.” -lyric from the Nirvana song, “All Apologies,” from the album “In Utero”

a silent silver colored bundle of everything that makes up what it is exactly that

sparks inside the greater ramifications of every single solitary movement & moment

coming upon the turning self within/without &

brown when living inside,

the CNS comprised of

dendrites, neuronal cell bodies,

the glials & the capillaries---

administering & governing

the brain, the muscles,

seeing, speaking, hearing,

all emotional facets,

all memory &

the perception of senses,

the grey matter comes down to the

nitty

gritty

of things---

churning, clicking, purring, humming,

manufacturing all reality within the experience of

being alive,

at the mercy of this matter we

wait,

walking & completely oblivious to the

universe within us---

and though they say we lose it with age,

we pump ourselves full of omega3’s,

do katz’s Neurobics, fill our lives full of

new subjects, new instruments, a new language,

a new route to work, a new book, a new film,

a new friend, a new joke, a new moment

right now to enhance our capacity to live longer with a

stronger ability to

remember.