mindless subtlety

today i will be honest!
in both ellipsis & exclamation
mark...  today i will eschew
irony.  i really mean that!
i will castigate
the serpent, ground up
in your burger patty;
i will encourage you to eat
the fruit of the tree
of knowledge.
     but enough of that-----today
i will be honest!-----i will
not anthropomorphize:
i will let the sparrow be the sparrow.
i will refuse to profile the crow.
i will allow the planets, the stars,
the comets & the clouds
to careen in blissful ignorance
of the overrated mind of man-----
this man's mind, anyway, filled
as it is with vanity & folly,
fear & need.  Yours-----
eh? who's to say? 
                              But today
the mechanism of the world
revolves without me,
as it always has, actually, perfect
in its mindless subtlety.