Matter Over Mind

Illustration from Antique Anatomy Text
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what do we know
of our unlit interiors
vital with viscera
organs comprising
our personal engines
of private biology
pumping and beating
secreting absorbing
digesting and dreaming
specialized structures
performing the various
work of existence

these canopic entities
own their own destinies
run to exhaustion
foreclose on their
functions unfazed by
the will of their host
setting off a grave
chain of events that
will threaten survival
more often than not
way too soon for
an unprepared soul