Strictly Speaking

Everything’s impossible –

that’s the end of that.

Every proof’s a spoof

of proof. We think we're

sure we know how two

limbs link, bear weight,

perambulate. But their

availing joints defeat

arriving at an even

slightly satisfactory

explanatory point. Go

beyond your monkey brain

to ponder why a limb exists

at all – or how on Earth

or elsewhere it acquired

its kinetic call. Easy

to predict an end within

parameters you've set:

clever, tight and formal.

But ask a gluon, quark

or graviton what’s

normal. Might make

one thing clear. You are
not inarguably here.

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