"One of the ridiculous things about being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everyone else." -Billy Collins (I saw this quote the other day and thought it was pretty much on the money. (Though, if you think about it, replace "poet" with "person" and it still works, sadly). Thought I'd pass it along while posting a new poem of my own.) The Failure of Science The insides are always hidden, cold and dark, like the inside of a stone; break it and you just have more outsides to deal with, again and again. The heart of things is always lost to sight. We are not permitted to lay eyes on its face; always only finding backsides, outsides, the flat dull surfaces of things. And so small a part of the whole is a surface.
