Four-Dimensional Chess

It’s reverse psychology to say
You’re using reverse psychology,
Those convinced it’s all psychology

Have actually argued, recently.
Wouldn’t it be lovely if the cosmos
Was as obsessed with psychology

In your everything’s-too-human sense?
Your creator in your image sits
Out there, brooding on a strategy

To make an indifferent-seeming
Potemkin universe of starlight,
The reverse psychology of which

Will convince ornery, weeping apes
To believe the opposite is true
And this universe is all for you.