and started asking stupid questions
like why water doesn’t behave like rock
and why beds are raised off of the ground
or what makes videos more entertaining
than reflections on a pond?
The most crucial things
I would have forgotten
is what to take for granted
and what is not an acceptable question
What if there is no ‘nature’, only ‘history’?
The world we see as natural
simply evidence of a way life has been
for us to learn from or replace
Cultures bear scars in the same way bodies do
Incidents crystallise in our attitudes
and are passed on as values