Patsy

The world

took advantage of me,

used me for purposes,

treated me like just another

gizmo it bought unconsciously

at the bazaar.

The world

has its own unconscious laws

of nature, serendipitous 

propensities regulated, if not

for the mistakes of man.

The world

is not your friend or enemy, is

indifferent in its to and fro...the

tide comes in and goes out.

Only men try to make sense of it.

The world is unbiased insensitive

insensitivity, beyond good and evil;

the temporary effects of human

endeavor.

If the world fails, it is because we 

have failed, in our superior 

judgement, to understand it wasn't

broken to begin with, so we tried

to make it even better than paradise.

If it wasn't paradise, we never would

have been born into it in the first place,

which would have been the world's

pure dumb luck.

Maybe, after billions of years, after

dinosaur display of awesomeness,

the world allowed humans to evolve,

knowing it was asking for trouble.

Maybe this time, the world thought,

they wouldn't make a mess of things,

and would be adornment to its

naturalness.

After all, the world thought, when you've

got a universe to play with, you might as 

well take a few chances...

after all, it's just finger-painting with

stardust, and you can always create

another day and start over.