Cosmic Questions

I tried to reason through the

Hows and whats and wheres

To make sense of the

Happenings in the world

In the city

In my life

The muggings and beatings and deaths

That sprang like noxious weeds

In every crack and crevice along

The walk

And in every building

But eventually it came down to

Just one essential question --

Why?

And I had no answer

Save the one philosophers have

Clung to

In their musings

Throughout time

And my life was suddenly at

The mercy of the

Capricious cosmos

Why not?

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