Fallacious

I've had no use for logic for years.
Like most of the hallmarks of
Higher thinking, ethics,
Mathematics and metaphysics,
Logic examined turns out to be
Shit, a cheap crutch a poor
Ape's incapable mind tries
To use to make sense of the world.
The world, of course, doesn't
Make any sense. It's too big,
Too unknown, and interrelated.
Creatures of our kind, so full
Of ourselves, like to think that
We're on it, agents with wills,
When, really, we're nothing
But elements of it, sand shoved
Around by the tides, and that
May explain why this ape in
Your presence turns helpless
Whenever he looks at your
Face, though you no longer
Love him and don't even
Speak. Simple logic would
Tell him he should turn
Away, but we both know
Logic is shit.



Poetry by Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2016-12-06 at 17:52

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