Those bundles of joy grow with rapidity,
developing deep voices and voluptuous curves,
but their liquid minds tend toward rigidity
from molding, emotional wounds, and raw nerves.
Must we learn by divinely ordained experience of stupidity
just in order to divine what purpose our carelessness serves?

A final conundrum it is how to exercise and balance hard-won free will
until one discovers that no such thing ever existed and none ever will.

We are by gender a physical and psychological Halfling
ruled by chemical reactions produced in our glands,
raging cellular battlefields, voracious beasts, quite baffling,
and anyone investigating full well understands
just how much ignorance knowledge is raffling
to all takers in the grip of that priesthood’s hands

“By the rational method we shall know the Truth!”
Yet do we know for sure how one grows a tooth?

What is missing, we do not know
and it is useless to complain.
There are possibilities in a long row
as well as avenues that remain –
alleys and back rooms and places all go
at least once, even going insane.

We spin a wheel of fortune and chance every turn
with an inexhaustible supply of cow chips to burn.