Jason Ryberg
A Creature So Universally
Unconcerned
Though seized by the roving
and perverse imp of curiosity
from time to time,
the cat is, otherwise, a creature so universally
unconcerned with the day to day workings
of things and the world in which
they (and it) are themselves
merely components, at work,
in their own way, within it,
that it contains in its repertoire,
no great questions or inquiries,
no philosophies or ethics,
but only confident opinions and assumptions
that it can never satisfactorily communicate to us,
but neither is it terribly concerned
with doing so.
Bio
Jason Ryberg is the author of eighteen books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and, a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His latest collection of poems is The Great American Pyramid Scheme (co-authored with W.E. Leathem, Tim Tarkelly and Mack Thorn, OAC Books, 2022). He lives part-time in Kansas City, MO with a rooster named Little Red and a billygoat named Giuseppe and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.