Auntie History wants a small life
But she can’t get it
Things balloon
Even the death of a mouse
Becomes Napoleonic
Her needlepoint
Is a wall of hieroglyphs
She’d reverse engineer everything
Make a circus tent
Into a simple hat
But small things
Won’t let her
Negentropy builds
Systems grow
She can’t say
Who is doing the measuring
She thinks
She should have married Nietzsche
When she had the chance
Planet of the Blind 