So the purpose of this blog is to be a space to practice creativity. I am currently using it as a place to record a single, unedited poem for each day in 2019. While I attempt to write everyday, I may not actually post daily. Instead, I will post poems as they are completed, but one for everyday of the year. Not sure I can make it, but we'll see. It's fun to try regardless :)

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Poem: January 1, 2026

Life

Let’s say I’m my own

experiment, some attempt

my consciousness makes


to understand

itself, the world, goodness

or evilness. 

The Why, The Truth,

the dot on the i of this life.


An experiment attempted

through the clumsy, 

scratched, dulled, and limited

instruments of my body.


And let’s admit that

the experiment is flawed–


awash in uncontrolled-for

variables, hopelessly

subjective and forever

ongoing with only

the squishiest hypothesis

to drive its questions.


How could this experiment

be measured, understood, trusted?

And how could it matter?


What rational mind would propose

or engage in this work?


What sentient creature could

ever do anything else?
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