Friday, December 23, 2022

CHRISTMAS STAR

Of all of the gifts 
man has ever
been given, 

this was, unquestionably, 
the greatest 
and the cruelest,

as it seemed, 
most perversely, 
to do the most good 

in curing the sicknesses 
which had heretofore 
driven him: 

his belief 
that there is any such thing 
as true knowledge, 

instead of that
black sea of 
fascinating glimmers;

and his addiction 
to confusion which impersonates 
complexity—

both of which were easily 
and unsympathetically 
subsumed

into that baffling 
pool of immutable 
simplicity 

which the shepherds 
called
night sky.