One Will Soon Be Extinct

But the beast and the monk both
Want so badly to live. Why
Deny them isolation?

There is no map of the world,
Only a world full of maps
Of the mind’s thoughts on the world,

More or less useful, all lies.
Lies are more or less useful,
Including the lie there’s truth.

The mind’s viciously useful
As the electricity
Inside its skulls communing

With the electricity
Outside of them. Beast and monk
Eye each other in the cave.