"a great useless structure, or one left unfinished, having been begun without a reckoning of the cost"
The brain struggling
To represent
Its self in words
Like these returns
To conundrums--
The container
Of everything
That shapes nothing,
The memory
That is present
To make the past
Pretend future,
The social self's
Follies rotting
Beside the lake
In all weathers.