He processed his world
through rationality and reason.

"But that filters out so much else!"
I protested.

"All else?" he snorted.
"Wishful thinking! Superstition!"

He said this as I watched angels
gamboling about his head,
gleefully plugging and unplugging
the dendrites and synapses
of his carefully organized brain.

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