who learned to cry
was right:
the best anti-virus
protection from
sadness is
pattern recognition—
this
is like that;
stolidity
like blankness;
detachment, right
next door
to madness.
*
Wherefore this need
to triangulate
emotion?
Our first response
to the threat
of overbalance is
not
to respond—
but to find someone
to show.
*
Note to future-self:
when you finally
rub up against
the Great Artifice,
be sure to save
the last of those three wishes
for meta-
significance.
