Useless meditation.

USELESS MEDITATION

   Because we are crass
   utilitarians all
   we accept & cherish
   Crusoe's daybook of accounts

   But what of Friday's
   inscrutable
   dark cry
   at the core of creation
   the fury & speech
   of unknowable forms
   like those lachrymose rock
   faces on Easter Island
   staring at Alpha Centauri

   We fish plant & write
   in our palm-thatched hut
   hoping the universe
   is what we construct

--RICHARD O'CONNELL