Why the big to-do
around putting
your foot down?
However tenacious you
make yourself
out to be,
you know that
soon you will have to
unstick that boot
and move it
to some other
discrepant position
(which, by the
way, is also quite
temporary).
If you're not
being careful,
you might even slip
and come loose
from this capricious
planet entirely.
So what's with
the show we
pretend to intuit
around these alleged-
ly permanent
displays of our firmness?
When in truth
we all know from
way back
in grammar school how
nothing stays put
without roots.
