I.
What makes us clap like seals
At sublimity is people's thoughts?
Why do ideas have values at all?
We are awed by performance
Of what we don't understand,
The sky we protect ourselves from.
We seek to go where we can laugh at everything.
II.
And now cats eat tuna
(A reminder of the days when they both roamed the sea floors
As natural competitors),
Except now we feed cats instead of porpoises
And so we've made a choice that rules them —
Except when the cat refuses.
