the world is full
of the definite

the tv sits across the room

if I go to it, hit the power
button, it will turn off

if I stay seated, bother with
the remote, it can change
channels or turn off as
well

or if I do nothing,
nothing will
happen

this is how the universe is

no tricks
no secrets
no conspiracies

even humans aren’t
that complex

they do the same things
over and over and over
and over and over and
over and over again

like stock characters out
of the text book, everyone-
everyone- does things in
a predictable and easily-
understood way

the **** will always **** the dumb-****
guy, the lawyer will **** the innocent,
and our role-models will always let us
down

it’s not new and it never
has been

so I have no sympathy
for those of you who
are surprised

and neither for those
of you determined to
change what the world
is

I’ve already told you:

this is a definite world,
of concrete, unalienable
facts

there is no place for liars
or those convinced there’s
something else going on
than what they can see

there is little place for the deceived
and the blinded

(especially when their eyes
are gouged out by their own
knife)