November 04-A, 2022

We have to pick and choose 
among all of the things that are said
in finding what we call truth,
but who is to say 
if we are right
or just making things up
some more
again?

How do we know what we claim to know?

"In my heart I know,"
fuels all the gamblers in all the casino's worldwide,
and all the horoscope readers and writers,
and all the sorcery,
charms and spells
of voodoo and witchcraft...

We say what is so and what is not so
based on our experience
and our best guesses,
but it all comes down to
"So it is said."

Who said so?
Who says who said so?
"I plucked it from the wind,
my friend,
as it blew in from Neverwhere,
or Neverwere,
and then it was gone
wherever it will,
and we are left with that,
to make of it what we will."

And everything hangs on what we make of it.
We are the ones who say so,
as though we are the ones who know so.

We are the origin of it all.
Or so it is said.

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