"you are defined by the people around you

it's not hard to find the borders and schisms

the corners, the gaps, the membranes impenetrable

the house brick by brick so empty it's full

the cellular automata that break all the rules

the quantum mechanics that rule all the quarks

the limbs you go out on to get a response

you are defined by the people around you

it's not hard to find the waves and the patterns

the thoughts, the feelings, the memories inexorable

the minds so complete they never find each other

the bees that are dancing, the ants that leave pheromones

the dog that is talking to the duck with the fallopian tubes

that twist and contract to keep out a rapist

you are defined by the people around you

it's not hard to find the change and the crazy

the pendulum cut from one piece of matter and the

chaos and order machines and the living

flesh on the bone and the sounds of the summer

the grass never growing the desert succumbing

the breast of the girl that heaves for the solider"