A Lizard in the Soup

We change beyond choice,

bound to the universe

as congruent events

. . .

some as strict as gravitation,

some as random as a lizard in the soup.

~Jim Dodge,
from "The Prior and Subsequent Heavens",
in Rain on the River

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Feeling much better today. I cannot put into words how much it meant to me that so many have offered their support, love, thoughts, and prayers. Thank you. This poem gets to the heart of it: we are all subject to both rules and randomness, and we change as a result. I'm just experiencing a lizard in my soup.