It's an unhealthy dulgence That's known A common tract Rolling hills of obviation No confirmation necessity Abundant truisms won't slow A buildup believed to be inevitable But that is the myth A gorge narrative that didn't See the mechanical scooper Taking the dirt out and running a pipe At the top of the river Flatter earths than thou Skitter before the sun Light switch Kafkatch Latched to its insecticide Like a paper to a struck match Is it alive with tortoise Harely ready to race out And cheat death with that Philosophic rage against The lying in the night There's another way: Fold, ensconce in the impulse And the environment Wrap the blankets of cause and effect Around the feats performed For performance sake To slide a paradox under a stuffy nose And sniff out many-sided origami