Educated Guess (2011)

It’s all poetry and prose and proper placement of pronouns,

It’s all hand holdin’ in heavenandhell,

It’s all true or false or shrugged shoulders,

But an educated guess is absurd.

It’s all sedans and station-wagons and sad vacations,

It’s all abracadabras and sleight of hand,

It’s all happy hours under pulsing neon moons,

But an educated guess is absurd.

It’s all psilocybin soliloquies with shamanic insanities,

It’s all fake fat cowboys on cell phones in the West,

It’s all capitalist carnivals with candy wrappers in the mud,

But an educated guess is absurd.

It’s all pepper-spray and paddy-wagons and pigs,

It’s all love and rage bound to laws limitlessly,

It’s all holy shits and piss trickles on the tile floor of Absolute Reality,

And I guess, I guess – the ridiculous is best for this cosmic test.