The sun is blood orange
Our planet burning toward a new
age of extinction An impossible
attempt at rhyme Evolution
shapes acceptable solutions, not
optimal ones, says a scientist
whose life’s work is an argument
against reality A train that’s not
a train, so much as
a description created by sensory
systems to inform us about
the fitness consequences
of our actions–a brain’s best
guess at what the world is like
A story A system
of corruption Illusion
of control A shared nightmare
we each experience on our own
The bridge from which we all
jump
Our planet burning toward a new
age of extinction An impossible
attempt at rhyme Evolution
shapes acceptable solutions, not
optimal ones, says a scientist
whose life’s work is an argument
against reality A train that’s not
a train, so much as
a description created by sensory
systems to inform us about
the fitness consequences
of our actions–a brain’s best
guess at what the world is like
A story A system
of corruption Illusion
of control A shared nightmare
we each experience on our own
The bridge from which we all
jump
Justin Marks’ books are, You’re Going to Miss Me When You’re Bored, (Barrelhouse Books, 2014) and A Million in Prizes (New Issues, 2009). He is a co-founder of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press, and lives in Queens, NY with his wife and their son and daughter. For more, go to http://justinmarks.net/.
featured image via Spoon University.
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