smoking kills, reads the package handed over the counter
addiction and compulsion are not exactly the same
to be bigger and scarier, this is what children must learn
to be less afraid of the dark (at military school)
to live forever, economies of scale can give leverage
over time itself if the scale is large enough
we are all bad physicists (besides the physicists:
shit at physics metaphors) and we are even
more terrible evolutionary biologists, because
of course bacteria are survivors and they die fast,
geese are fit and they are silly, and the biggest
animals died out millions of years ago
and yet come together to be larger,
we must! for the benefits are great
there will be many synchronized energies
(you know the type)
and in holy or corporate matrimony
we will live happily, forever,
after which Mary Shelley
chuckles at our hubris
Roman Ryan 