Pathetic Amnesty

Everywhere there is a face.
The roommates of perception,
Face-recognition circuits

Cheek-by-jowl with abstract thoughts
That find themselves embarrassed
By the pareidolia

That keeps cropping up like weeds
In mental conversation,
Having quarreled all night long,

Try to reach a compromise—
Recognition tricks accept
The world’s not really human,

And thoughts will put up with poems
Blinking the eyelids of dawn.