Divagation

Subject entry and retreat, that's learning.
Regret and shame-ellipses, that's morality. 
Ethical burn-up on re-entry, try try again.

Or sit the next years out,
walk in a small circle,
and figure out what
and whether a soul is.

Embarrassment scalds and degrees don't measure
the temperature on the following days.

I want to do philosophy to imagine that my
experience is an extension of the rest of this
mess.

And amble away again.