Pandora
Not for nothing does this lady
of alarms and surprises
inhabit a potent degree, hot-spot
predisposing some of her children
to embody or manifest untoward consequences:
whether luck, bounty, bombshell
or revelation.
Without her, how would the proper gods of Chaos,
dispense their swinging mandate
of evolve, devolve?
Outreach the control-freak clutches
of AI
and Man’s fear-ridden, reactive mind
only intent on immediate survival -
pecuniary and biological?
She is the trigger-happy catalyst,
upsetter of apple-carts, precedents,
her random throws of the dice
allowing for mutation & invention,
for Chance to stand a chance.
She predicates against inevitable outcomes
of collective zombie-dom.
Champion of free choice, autonomy,
instigator diversity, innovation
and of ambidextrous management,
full-spectrum, non-partisan politics…
…dreams, dreams! seth the linear,
colour-blind, left brained ones:
we will find our way, work it out!
But - one without the other
is uncreative, non-sustainable
when Pandora is no arbitrary lottery,
but a dancer, a jester, a player
between fantastical dimensions;
full of mischief and serendipity;
a galactic spideress throwing her fey web
- without a game-plan to show.
Denouements and aftermaths
never hers
- her gift to rock the boat.
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