Tuesday, August 17, 2021

BY DEFAULT

What would I do 

if I didn't 
need to do 

a thing? 
Would I 

fluctuate 

between magnetic
and electrical 

potential—

between 
dinner and dancing 

and a long- 
distance call? 

Show me a beholder 

with no eye 
to privilege, 

and I'll show you 
a massless particle 

that doesn't rumple space at all.

Ask me: 
what do "self" 

and "it" 
have in common? 

And I'll answer:

how could a self 
not be selfish 

by default?