When I Was Dead

Vajra Pancharia

Given the existence of the universe, all the molecules in it . . . have been here for billennia or something. They just keep juggling around. So you've got three of Shakespeare's molecules and you've got two of Himmler's or whatever it is, you know. Part of your fingernail was part of St. Joseph of Aramathea's frontal lobe or something. And you know, large parts of you were once a daffodil in Nova Scotia or something. You know, your feet used to be Winston Churchill. The same things keep getting recycled. It could be that when we pass away our psyches dissolves into lots of sort of strips of feeling. All the things that comprised us that were held together by our bodies dissolve. You know, hence "I wasn't me to speak of just a thousand ancient feelings" feelings that have been around since the beginning of human time.

---Robyn Hitchcock---