Doodles to the Ace

The Negative Way

A multitude of partygoers, spiritually deprived 

vie with one another to tell their unique story

never once, meta-narratively speaking, do they  

doodle the ace that their rants are uniquely banal. 

Sensory obsessed folks armed with slick resumes

wait, longing for the cannabis train to arrive 

at an empty station, and never doodle the ace

that the train has already left for never-never-land.

The privilege of their unique time on earth is wasted

swept away in a sea of hubris that convinces them

that they are uniquely not who they truly are, and

they party on in conformity with their misconception. 

So also did the Israelites rave and cavort when they bowed

down before false gods in the Sinai desert. They also failed  

to doodle the ace that their camel train had already left

for the Promised Land - not knowing who they truly were.