<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div><font size="4">Human, Being</font></div><div><u><font size="4"><br></font></u></div><div><font size="4">Humans, now, being,</font><div><font size="4">plain to see, </font><span style="font-size: large;">so seriously </span></div><div><div><font size="4">embarked from bits</font></div><div><font size="4">boiling up from </font></div><div><font size="4">big bang </font><span style="font-size: large;">laughable </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">billions of eons </span></div><div><font size="4">gone by, </font></div><div><font size="4">to today’s </font><span style="font-size: large;">travails,</span></div><div><font size="4">are questing and querying </font></div><div><font size="4">as all and always </font></div><div><font size="4">of </font><span style="font-size: large;">every species has.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div><font size="4">All, or most, or many,</font></div><div><font size="4">well, some along the way</font></div><div><font size="4">have wished</font></div><div><font size="4">wandering weren’t so</font></div><div><font size="4">lost and tenderness </font></div><div><font size="4">more prevail </font></div><div><font size="4">in our loins and longings</font></div><div><font size="4">that drill deep within our days. </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Easy it is to </font></div><div><font size="4">tempt the fates and </font></div><div><font size="4">invent the states </font></div><div><font size="4">of cleverness </font></div><div><font size="4">incommensurate with </font></div><div><font size="4">stark mortality </font></div><div><font size="4">that stalks us,</font></div><div><font size="4">impossible as life, </font></div><div><font size="4">but it has not sufficed.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">I wish I had some answers,</font></div><div><font size="4">else I would sell them to you</font></div><div><font size="4">for a tuppence to the </font></div><div><font size="4">thousands you many pay </font></div><div><font size="4">the many pipers playing</font></div><div><font size="4">their sugar tunes. </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">As it is, what words worth</font></div><div><font size="4">more than dust will </font></div><div><font size="4">make a dent,</font></div><div><font size="4">will rend the veil,</font></div><div><font size="4">will pierce the shallow surface,</font></div><div><font size="4">and allow more than </font></div><div><font size="4">wise pronouncements </font></div><div><font size="4">of relinquishment and revelation. </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">I would despair but what use</font></div><div><font size="4">when tomorrow I will die and </font></div><div><font size="4">today is happening? </font></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Tim Hicks</div></div></body></html>