We might wish to blunt the points
To buffer the edges of this alien entity
That stands outside time and space
And this is what we do with metaphors like stand
Defend ourselves as with an amulet

The truth is all that is
All utterances all understandings
Are facets of the truth
And hence to the gelatinous organism
Figures that cut

The arrogance of the centipede
Confident of its chitinous exoskeleton
Which when threatened it twists into an impregnable spiral
Its panoply of a hundred legs
And what is a hundred

The blindness of the technologist
Discoverer of problems only to solve them
Master of prolongation and delay
Joiner and divider
The lore of temperature velocity mass material and extent

Even deliberate attempts to deceive
Reveal despite themselves
And through their very contingency
The intolerable truth
Beyond world beyond universe beyond life