ague of enlightenment

It's hard to remember
our goal
is to drain the swamp

—to train
the tunnel-end light
of Brownian motion
onto David Hume's
empirical, most likely
unhealthy, and
"complex idea"
that spontaneous
experience
is a good thing

—when I'm
up to miasma
in allegories.

— appeared in Möbius in May 1998.