You’re Not Wrong

If you can say it, then it’s real,
Although maybe not all the ways
You might believe when you say it—

Democracy, Jesus Christ, soul,
Allah, the Buddha, Thunderbird,
Late Capitalism, Star Trek,

Santa Claus, the dictatorship
Of the proletariat, truth.
Everything named has come to dance,

And as the names waltz, they appear
As spinning orreries appear
Against the music of the spheres.