Weightlessness
We’ve got gluts of information
but are dizzy for lack of a norm.
The norms of capitalism, friendship, and religion:
everything is so provisional, situational,
optional, such a matter of lifestyle choice
that the very word “norm”
is likely to victimize somebody.
Our magnetic field is dislocated;
gravity itself seems weakened.
But weightlessness
is not healthy.
–excerpt from The American Dissident by Edward Hoagland
