it doesn’t so much matter what you think if there is an absolute truth then thats just whats true and there isn’t any way around it, some things are subjective like whether or not you like olives, one day you don’t like them and then you try them in gin martinis and you’re like ‘holy crap, this is delicious’ so the next thing you know you love them. well some things may be like that, but most are not. most are just the way things are and the way they’re not and you’re going to have live with the decisions you’ve made, but sometimes you also have to live with the decisions others have made for you. some of those were made thousands and thousands of years ago and may be the reason you have to wear glasses to see the chalk board starting in seventh grade and then progress into needing them all the time except during ultimate frisbee when you seem to be able to see okay because a frisbee is larger than a ball, large enough in fact that even without corrective lenses you can see, but it all points to something doesn’t it? does’t it point to something like a problem with how we came out? but we seem so unbelievably well polished and complex, how can the whole system work but little things be broken? where was the line drawn and why? these are just the beginnings of my ponderings and should you have made it this far, could you bear through just a few more? this time in verse.

poetry

guppies are just like fish
but smaller
and your hand in mine
just like mine
though i’m taller and
you’re softer

but thoughts like these
are not more quiet
or more gentle
against the skin
inside my head
pressing to my skull

telling me that this design
is flawed from some ancient
ancestor

who was smaller
just like me
but smarter
and made mistakes much
bigger

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