It is impossible to find the beginning again,
but still, we need something new,
something like the beginning, again and again.

Something new to keep the juices flowing
in this half mad, half free existence.

Because if everything is already here,
we are shoppers, judges, bureaucrats.

Well, there is nothing that can be done about it now.
The bright spark of the absolute singularity flashed,
and we live in its light.

After George Oppen