Empirical Rationalization
Separate
but expanding,
our universes collide with a bang.
Kafka said he needed solitude to write..
“Not like a hermit,” he said, “but like a deadman.”
In the reticent grave
silence must ring in one’s ears.
My neighbors
are having a party.
Expanding decibels offend.
Empiricists say knowledge
is based on experience.
Rationalists claim reason
is the basis of knowledge.
The experience of the music
becomes the reason
for a cosmic headache.
I understand Eliot’s objective correlation.
I bask in the benefits
of both experience and reason.
There is small comfort in knowing
that wisdom fosters restraint.
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