If what you seek is truth,
give up on words.

All writing–all speech–is fiction,
a combination of symbols
arranged in arbitrary order,
pointing (depending on the speaker and receiver)
in any of several dozen directions.

Your words are a bucket of ping-pong balls
sealed in an empty oil drum
rolled down a mountainside.

Whatever truth may exist
it won't be found in words.

Text and image ©  2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.