Apr 2015
(NaPoWriMo Challenge: April 2, 2015)
The tendency to overestimate the degree to which others agree with you.
Hanging something out there like a smelly fish
and nobody bites—
not even the meandering line of fishermen
who escort you to the definition of skunk eye—
I do this is poetry all the time.
The diminutive brains of fish—
swimming in fallacies of reason
swimming in fallacies of belief
swimming in the truth—
the water never changes.
The water just dries up
while Californians vote and vote and vote.
The tendency to overestimate the degree to which others agree with you.
Hanging something out there like a smelly fish
and nobody bites—
not even the meandering line of fishermen
who escort you to the definition of skunk eye—
I do this is poetry all the time.
The diminutive brains of fish—
swimming in fallacies of reason
swimming in fallacies of belief
swimming in the truth—
the water never changes.
The water just dries up
while Californians vote and vote and vote.
For the first time in California's history, Governor Brown will enforce water sanctions due to the state's lengthy drought. What could be more pertinent than the never-ending ballot initiatives put upon Californian voters, so much the definition of false consensus that proposition scribes resort to machiavellian language to confuse voters.
