politics of reason

people always complain

about our two party system

and yet

people love to break

down any new system

into a two part system

whether it is described

by left and right,

or red and blue

or light and dark

people live for duality

make peace not war

but can either exist

without the other?

information overload

is it better to know

or to have no idea?

I was once told

that there was no grey

and when I was a child

I believed it

but the more you know,

the more ... idonno ...

sneaks into everything

every choice has many sides

every design has many parts

you can tunnel deeply

into the repercussions

of any decision

without finding out

how to decide

trapped

more freedom than a serf

not in a cell

only held back

by the constraints

of society

got a few bucks,

but not enough to uproot

just waiting for a breeze

strong enough to blow me away.