{"id":9138,"date":"2026-01-30T12:44:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:50:00","slug":"poem-acting-in-a-certain-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/30\/poem-acting-in-a-certain-way\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Acting in a Certain Way"},"content":{"rendered":"
I suspect that one’s attitude toward the unknown is at least as important and revealing as one’s attitude in organizing hard facts. I suspect that staring into the unknown is closer to staring into the heart of life than the abyss…<\/p>\n
Acting in a Certain Way<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
He materialized from \nAn irreligious order \nMonk he see \nMonk he do \nA proselytizer of mirror facts \nAs bare in reality as possible \nActing \nExactingly \nTo what is \nKnot what may be \nHaving a billiard ball of a time \nGloriously rigid \nNever deifying possibility \nAnd certainly knot \nLo, probability \nOccurrences \nAwe is determined to be \nGrave deeds \nIn forumed alone \nBuy that lifeless \nAs awe other subjects vacated \nAnd what remains \nThat unsatisfying status quo \nPerfectly under stood \nTo be \nPlayed by \nSow called objectivity \nCelebrated in difference \nAs ultimately dis interested \nAs dis member every know good other \nAll the wile \nEnjoining that \nLowest common denomination \nIdoling in neutral \nAs helled fast \nTo what \nOne cannot \nBelieve \nAllege \nPeering into \nSomething beyond \nHoly passable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"