18 October 2025
thought
that’s all it is
a tadpole in a test tube
while the oxygen lasts
understudied by the giant,
cognition, ready to exploit
advantage whether the brain
is wet or dry or
vapourware
or simply conjured
from the empty air
perhaps a particle of dust
a planet to be planted on
its inordinate
love of self
being expression enough,
its tiny steps of being
indentured
to the dark