why is life a condition where

we must learn and learn again

what we already know?


is it the hubris that thinks

none of it applies to him

or that he'll but the one to outwit the fates?


the conditions of creation

seem to favor delusion

but the conditions are just what they are


we add the missing ingredient

of vanity and stupidity

we all know better yet we all do the same


stumble like idiots toward a light

that faintly glimmers at the limits of our will



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