Another one that started from a variation on a book title. So far, I think the proper ending is after ‘It rained all weekend long’—but it’s an early draft, so I’m including the additional bits for now.

I need to know some things
about the world

I don’t know exactly what they are
so it’s best if you start at the beginning

When we get to things I know
you can skip those bits

I probably wasn’t listening anyway

—

Is the weather supposed to be accompaniment
or equaliser?

My father died
on a sunny Friday morning

It rained all weekend long

—

Do we have emotions
to dissuade us from logic
or do we have logic
to distract us from emotion?

And why are they separate things?

—

The Wall came down
three years ago
and we celebrated

So why are we trying to put up new ones?

—

Why do I resist
the ones I fall in love with?

Do we lose points
if we get it wrong?

—

If past performance
is not an indication of future returns
what does that say about history?

—

Why do we want to go to Mars
when I can’t even get to New York?

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What does it all mean?

(10 July 2019)

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