Rhetorical Inquisition

Talking to what can’t talk back
Seems fairly universal
As human behaviors go.

The local cemetery
Holds many hearts and flowers
Leftover from Valentines.

People address trees and stones
Pretty routinely, and not
In any fungal language.

Let’s not get started on gods
Or all the conversation
Phantoms haunting inner skulls.

Are cats purring to themselves,
To signal anything, or
Because cats can’t not purr?