The Stories
Why do we want to believe
that the stories we like best
are truest?
I would prefer every poem
to have a different author,
to emerge unstained by oeuvre.
Sound or silence,
we can devise no grammar
for the indivisible.
Who collects payment
when I am auctioned off
thought by trait?
Nothing happened
as I had imagined
it would not.
Evolutionary intelligence
is the only intelligence:
evolution is intelligence.
My favorite things are
like myself
irrelevant but essential.
All poems are written and copyrighted by Michael C. Rush.
None may be republished or repurposed without permission.