The Makes-Sense-Stop Rule

Specializations have happened before,
In cells, in multicellularity,
Eusocial colony organisms,

With latitude for flexibility—
Stem cells that start out pluripotent, workers
Who, fed royal jelly, turn into queens—

But languages, meanings, we enable
A new twist to this, a capacity
To filter the incoming world, to fix

A perspective that amounts to a niche,
Where humans all fish from reality
With such a collection of hooks and weirs

Harpoons and nets, long lines and explosives,
That few seem to hunt the same kinds of fish,
And truth’s more efficiently depleted.