Tilting Into It 

A little scary
the iffy control we have
on the trajectory
of our minds
And those remote controls
are terrible:
clinical, chemical, religious, telemetry 

Like crude Mars probes

that thunk down

somewhere

lost on our surface someplace 

who knows where

more scattered debris 

for the collection.

Or they miss altogether 

though we’re not that far away...
or even all that complicated
we're more like
those old tilting marble and maze games

with the basic knobs
to guide yourself 
away from the bad holes
and into the good ones
which really just gets you

back to Start again

so it never ends.

Ever.

But if you set down the remote controllers

you can get pretty good
at reading the tilts 
and learning to dial 

your own knobs
accordingly.



BK