Oh Grow Up

People disagree, you’ll agree,
Tepidly or violently,
On the way people ought to live.

We consider this. How can we
Speak to this disagreeable
Universe of human beings?

Classically, the solution
For poetry is to argue
Or present from one perspective,

With or without acknowledgment.
With acknowledgment, it’s the best
Perspective. There’s no other choice

But this. Without acknowledgment,
It’s universal, or sort of,
Art. Objective imagery.

Either way, your perspective wins.
We feel like that insect you saw
The other day at the lakeshore,

Struggling to escape in the rocks,
Dragging its sticky molt behind,
Still attached to its younger self.