knowledge
cannot be applied;
the most crucial principle
is also
impossible,
like traveling masslessly
faster than light,
or leaving a room
before you arrived.
As if we were selfish
and self-
absorbed narcissists,
some conclusions
have peculiar habits
of suddenly,
cruelly breaking
it off with us.
And all we can do
to rebound
when this happens
is binge
on such junk-
thoughts as
nothing is random,
and absence
of evidence is evidence
of absence.
