some will dwell some will not

some will dwell
and some will not

little brown stones that turn out cream chocolate
those that seep coffee
will be some of the first extinct
tastes 
across under over 
slide swallow down to the stomach
to dis-solve in churn acid memory memory acid

how strange the sack of liquid burn at our center
like tropical poison frogs evolved over years we name but cannot really count
a toxic leak in the pocket of their cheek

i have often wondered what it must be 
to live with the known sensation of acid 

some will get stuck in time tar 
flesh still dinosaur 
some will use digestive enzymes to
break down
to atoms
sweat out cry out shit out shout out 

is the output of energy required
for nature to roll itself as a boulder, to uproot itself as a tree, pull a tower by the hair, 
grab a tyrannosaurus at the ankle
and bring it topside down
> or < or = 
the energy required to live a life of pleasure 
> or < or = 
the energy required to live a life awake
> or < or = 
the energy required to frack a mountain or divert a river or burn the burning chemicals of a tipped train spilled and soaking down to the sponge of the ground 
< or > or =
the energy required to generate a life of happiness
< or > or =
the energy required to break the illusion that your joy is completely self generated
> or < or = 
the energy required to weep
> or < or = 
the energy required to be the ocean 
> or < or =
the energy required for masses bend with straws in their mouths to holes in that ground and suck up the chocolate and shape it into bars for my life of pleasure that my eyes sea salt, as it dissolves on my tongue for its future when its presence is a vile and bitter made sweet for just me
< or > or = 
the energy required to imagine in all directions of time and space while touching only as far as the length of an arm
< or > or = 
the energy required to be remembered 
< or > or = 
the energy required to be

i buy this chocolate, for its ethical imprint, that is dark not milk and has large crystals of sodium chloride and chopped pieces of crunchy pretzel. it comes wrapped in a sheet of aluminum. 

some amount of weeks ago that i cannot name but can count, after eating some pieces i started to taste the metal in my mouth. 
as if i had not bothered to unwrap the candy and taken a bite right out of the silvery bar.
have you ever tasted it? 
the flavor is an impression of the form. cold and thin and crunchy. 
apparently a common experience from radiation exposure is the taste of tinfoil and sometimes chocolate left in one's mouth 

and have you ever thought your cat acts like a bunny that
resembles a bird that 
looks at you
like a reptile

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some kinds of evolution do not require but simply are, violent
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there are a few kinds of evolution : 
that which happens in complete sync with our own perception of reality, clung so close it cannot be known as a thread of its own but only as a detail of the entire weaving
and
that which waits 
somewhere back in time accumulates all that 
compounds down atop it
sticky pressurized out to bind it all together 
and
that which happens instantly in the reverberations of the unexpected expression of force