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If you don’t care this much
And wouldn’t give this much
For something or someone,

You’re saying you don’t care
At all, that it’s worthless,
And yet this nothing much

Was the earliest prize,
Cultivated ahead
Of the grains and legumes,

Possibly the model
For domesticated
Knowledge, hence forbidden,

Hence used as covering
For any wilderness
Left in human nature,

While prophets worshipped it,
Physicians prescribed it,
And you still devour it,

And while it served symbol
For feminity,
For true enlightenment,

Evolutionary
Fable for the dark sides
Of wasp pollination

And exquisitely fine
Tunings of siblicide—
If this is nothing much

Then it could only be
As it’s exemplary
Of worth in everything