While the realm of thought is arguably physical There is a gradient from do to try-to-figure-out It goes from the construction project manager To a bookish, wordish, monkish gambler On chips that have no value and bets that add Up to knowledge, insight, not-even-a-little Outcome, whereas the companion actor Makes hay out of a fieldstone, a house out of The trees, what-the-hell-do-you-mean when You talk about Forests and the spirit of root- Water? I know which side of this analogic see- Saw I stoop upon, and I think you understand As well as anyone, for what do-ish one curls out An afternoon to argue out a dichotomy In the form of a poetic formulation