Fireplace Records Case #52
The Case of the Fly in the Kitchen
You say that the world is everything
that is the case.
What would it be like
if it were not?
What's not the case? Plenty! Case Closed!
When nothing the case?
Seems a mistake.
Like a reductio ad absurdum clam bake,
When nobody came,
early or late.
Or it's not the case that the world
is everything that is the case.
What? Strange? A fly buzzing in a bottle.
That "Fish fly to Seattle" is not the case
still tells us something about the world we make.
Or is it that not everything
in the world is the case.
That suggestion
that's learning towards truth
in some comforting familiar manner
Appeals to my communal action words, and
My idiosyncratic individual voice in time.
Was it:
Was it the case once in the past or not?
Is it now the case or not?
Will it ever be the case or not?
Was everything ever the case? Ever?
We enjoyed those playful games:
wrestling with hypothetical cases,
find the imaginary treasure chest,
watching the film detective solve the case,
Until they broke the lock on her case.
a case
the case
one case
many cases
Closed Case
Zen Koans: The Fireplace Records
Koans by Mike Garofalo
Subject Index to 1,975 Zen Buddhist Koans
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