The cost is not symbolic.
The Burning Bush,
but from the perspective of the bush.
Zombie reckoning.
An ethical simulacrum.
The itinerant notion contending with
the Forces of Happenstance.
Gestures which look like gifts.
The said-before longing to become the said-now.
Why kiss lips wasted on prayer?
What if enlightenment
is not accumulation but erosion?
Should we really deem Promethean
the manufacturers of meth?