Magic (for Nick)

We are born, poof, and spend the rest

of our lives (or not) trying to come up 

with the reason, the trick, the explanation

for that impossibility. All the philosophy,

the mental effort, trying to fathom the

unfathomable is like a joke, a trick we

play on ourselves, even in the certainty

of what we think we know, 'till, poof, 

suddenly we're not there.

Up what sleeve are we then?