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Julie Hart
Watching Ants
A roiling pile of caviar
on the sidewalk.
Knowing there is no why.
Humans can impute
a reason to any phenomenon
they care to slice out of the whole
wide panoply of things that happen.
This does not mean the reason
they choose has any validity,
any meaning at all.
Your theory is as useless as mine.
They are airing out the nest.
They are engaged in a massive
meet-and-greet on company time.
Who knows?
And the ants can’t tell us.
Ant fire drill? Please.
Similar theories could be
raised about why you’re still
unhappy, your body uninhabitable
despite recent renovations.
The way no matter how many
of your demands are met,
you keep raising the ante.
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