The Wisest Creature in the Room

Funny how you probably imagine

that the old guy with the beard must be

the wisest of the trio you see here.

Assessing psychic sizes of the heart

and mind by how we find they manifest

in flesh – in how its muscular appurtenances

press up tight beneath the skin – causing

something to appear we’re certain constitutes

an outward sign of clear igniting wisdom –

amounts perhaps instead to some far greater

quizdom we cannot discern so easily. So

somewhat queasily we dare to stare down

at the foreground at the rounded greenish

alien and entertain the possibility that it or he

or she may possibly amount to whom we ought

to query on the truest nature of reality. But

neither bearded man nor alien have much

conversance with that sort of thing. Let’s bring

the yellow fellow in – perhaps he has a clue?

Honestly, my friend, the wisest creature

in the room is none of them. It’s you.

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