USER ERROR

How often 

life’s significance

feels like milk 

spilled 

from a faulty cup

for which there never
are enough

extra-absorbent
words to soak up.

But first:

why not instead figure 

meaning as container

and minutia’s 

profusion as its 

volumetric contents?

And second: it’s likely
your mistake, no matter 

which one you 

choose to construe 

as being lost,

if you confuse 

its carrier vessel’s user-

friendliness—or lack 

thereof—

with purpose.