Monday, July 17, 2023

SIX OF ONE

Turns out human 
evolution was a 
balancing act: 

intellect 
winnowed instinct 
to a half-empty glass;

walking upright 
borrowed dignity 
from the quadruped class. 

But what no one ever mentioned
is that opposites 
attract—

that our fetish for abstractions 
which are stylish,
rich, and opulent 

could yet mesh with 
concrete weakness for the 
destitute and derelict—

that, at base, we are all
made up of a universe 
of specks, 

half of which possess 
what the other 
half lacks—and that 

some days, we are 
gobsmacked, others ruined 
by that fact.