to knowing what everything
is for.
Around every corner,
there used to be
dangers, so
we had to be
cautious—but also
much braver.
Life itself
was sacramental,
so everyone on Earth
was religious
by nature.
But now we know
that divinity
was only eternity's
loud and tacky
costume—and worse:
that the universe
is really just
a courtroom,
wherein
the most impassioned
argument
not only writes
and delivers
the sentence,
but invents and controls
the nomenclature.
