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The poem builds a violent cosmology where black holes, suns, flesh, spirit, and devilish fact churn together in an endless cycle.

The language moves through tunnels, atoms, sharks, fire, and deep blackness as if creation and destruction are the same event viewed from different angles. Mind alone spins war as power gives conflict a central role in the universe imagined here. The syntax is fragmentary and incantatory, but the pressure of the lines keeps returning to a struggle between spirit and brute control.

Titled 'The Black Hole down', a fragmentary cosmology where the 'Eternal turn toward gone' leads through a 'silver' tunnel to a 'Next Universe at the bottom Sun', and 'Mind alone spins war as power' until 'the devel came in control of fact' and 'Spirit due still cancels with Lot'.

The page reads like dictation from a vision, astrophysics and theology poured into the same incantatory stream so that black holes, atoms, and burning flesh sit flush against spirit, devil, and the name Lot. The recurring downward motion - 'down', 'toward gone', 'at the bottom', 'in the deep black' - makes the cosmos a descent toward an origin where 'fire begun', collapsing creation and destruction into one event. 'At final Suns in atom struck is a bargin' treats nuclear annihilation as a transaction, which the close then settles in ledger language: 'Spirit due still cancels with Lot', as if the new physics is just the old moral accounting under another name, a debt of spirit cancelled against a biblical figure. The source spellings 'bargin' and 'devel' and the trailing colons are preserved as the scan shows them.