Natural Histories

Since the irrational

“because I said so”

start,

they’d had their differences:

color that isn’t really

color, spin

that isn’t spin

because attitude’s

best

when it has no content.

Ask a physicist

what “charge” is;

he’ll say your question

makes no sense.

 

Word had it

that if they surrendered

their feckless ways

and their lives

with no end,

if they joined up,

they would get a head,

something to speak for them:

The head says,

“I don’t want to die.”

Says,

“I am all

alone here.”