The Interior Is a Distant Sea within Your Way of Thinking

What you have to love about something
Like algorithmic quotes of the day
Is their stilted similarity—

Is this the best that wisdom can do?
Does every brain crave the same bromides?
Maybe it is. Maybe they do. This

Kind of formulaic, chin-up grin
Could be the best that wisdom can do,
Or it could be even wisdom leaves dregs.

Swirl the residue at the bottom
Of cumulative cultural mind.
Ancient, encrusted crud’s what you’ll find.