They tell me: for all
intents and purposes,
it's perfectly safe
to disregard
all information
which appears
more than once
or is not
in the foreground.
*
They say: by the time
we're through
with you,
you will buy-in
to the ordeal
of your life
as a set of scales
of Justice, perfectly
balanced
by involvement
and forbearance.
*
But maybe that's only
trivially true.
Maybe
the more our words
accrue,
the less room
there is for the content
of experience.
*
Maybe these bodies
we've shunned
and abused
shall finally be
returned to us—
as opposed to
the limitless
ones we were
promised.
