Once you accept that the sensory world is not enough
Everything changes
Everything was already changing
And much depends upon the distinctions
Of sensory sensuous and sensual
Not to the sensual ear
And not just the sensuous woman
Nor the long sensory train from say
Cochlea to cortex
Grandma had eyes on the back of her head
An assertion that everybody knew
To be anatomically incorrect
But all cast a wary eye toward one of such formidable sensory acuity
But no eagle sees hound smells bat hears all that much
And what we humans perceive is mostly a heap
Of more or less broken machinery
How could it be otherwise
After 200 millennia
Of technical processes
And the vaunted augmentations
Particle accelerator litmus test and telescope
Barely scratch the surface
Merely impress lightly upon the surface
While children have forgotten how to go to school
And voters are flummoxed by the triple choice
Of standard venality mundane incompetence and criminal insanity
And time suddenly and sporadically runs in reverse
Absorbed by cars telephones and television sets
That which was attracted now is repelled
That which was built up now is torn down
That which was discarded resurrects in hideous return
Dog eats dog
Venus flytrap consumes itself
Truth demands forgetting