human history as a machine occurs
consistently in revision while

that which is politically cynical
might violate that which is real

and while that which being
real coalesces its present

human history as it is an inseam
occurs always within an expansion

sewn by a systemic
of accident and choice

let’s say celebrity’s phony and
that meaning somehow a map

such as the case might perhaps lead to
the wonder at that map’s appearance