Teleology leads me down a rabbit hole Was Alice here and does the mirror darken When you look closer than a glance Certainly things come away Until they are nailed down to paper Or is that a wall I see behind me Of course there is a goal, the arc says so But I am saying but and yet and however Scattering the ashes of a song you wanted to write And wondering if images and smells and sounds Make up the stories in which they live