What makes this house so startling
Is not so much that it’s leaning,
But the fact that it’s still standing.
How did this happen?
Who or what do we blame?
And how is it still standing?
How long before it collapses altogether?
It’s the same response we have on seeing
Other kinds of trouble in the world:
Failing relationships, companies, organizations —
Why they are not working pales before
The wonder that they’re still functioning at all:
The tenacity of humans to cling with hope
To things no longer viable
Is nothing short of miraculous.
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