Intelligence
has the talent
to bankrupt success.
Many who are
smart are struck
dumb by their abilities'
prodigious proclivities
to sidestep
what they want.
They build cottage
industries
on their fondness
for refining
their own postulates
out of existence—
forgetting in the process
that the mess
is the monument
and that every
best guess is
a valuable precept:
is a failure
if and only if
if fails
to adequately test
a hypothesis.
