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Person A speculates about issue Y
Person B, frustrated that person A has been
so damned speculative lately, disagrees.
“Tilda Y!” B declares
in decibels raised for confrontation
and suddenly A and B are infallibly sure of themselves,
as no one likes to be negated.
“If Y then Q, and Q is completely implausible. Therefore Tilda Y,”
B argues ad absurdum.
“Strawman fallacy,” A retorts.
“Tilda that! Tilda Y!” B is a negation machine,
“Y, Tilda Tilda Y!” person A has a lump in her throat,
double negating like two wrongs do make a right
and person B is breathing heavily,
shouting paradoxes of his own and this goes on and on in much more colloquial terms
until
everything comes full circle and
A equals B
and they are not person A and B
they are you and I.
And Y is a substanceless variable
that neither of us actually care about.
We should move on to the root of the issue:
The pigeon is living the last day of his life and he doesn’t know it.