Or God merely a mistake of man's?
-Neitzsche
Quirky and immortal
Some causal chains
are so long, thought
cannot wind them;
others, as inexorable
as the final chord in songs.
and mercurial
as quarks—
as wiseacre cartoon
rabbits, pigs, and ducks—
the first gods must have sprung
from the volcanic
islands of our minds
as general outlines,
suggested by the anxious
agitation of our motions—
then grew tall
and strong on all
the sugar, fat, and salt
of our desperate hopes
and fevered questions,
til at last they turned
misshapen
and strange,
which gradually changed
to strange-
ly quiet—
then just dead-
silent—
then just
dead-wrong.