#754 - cannot assume

 

25.i.22

754

3.25

cannot assume

 

heart’s next

twig to leaf to bud

or flower

 

fresh ducklings run

a pond to rings

we cannot know they’ll fly

 

or that wires still conspire

to cast the object light

who’ll pay?

 

what’s in a black box

or how it seeps

we cannot assume a rule

but evolve it

 

whether if ever

how steady heads roll off, away

 

call soul

call consciousness

we cannot assume these things

 

let’s take tomorrow’s sun

 

tickle under

what’s next

thing I think unthink

 

whether if ever

 

the continued expansion of cosmos

none know for a certainty

 

how fast the cheese or prawns go off

 

can you tell whom to trust?

opinion runs our way

just for now

 

and so I say, no Seneca, opening dry veins

bring me the flask of friendship

by turns then let us quaff

 

sometimes you’ll go as far as you can

before you can go again