The Universe 
By May Swenson

What

                            is it about,

            the universe,

            the universe about us stretching out?

    We, within our brains,

             within it,

                            think

  we must unspin

the laws that spin it.

                            We think why

                because we think

because.

                Because we think,

                              we think

                              the universe about us.

                But does it think,

                            the universe?

                                Then what about?

                                                About us?

                                           If not,

must there be cause

                            in the universe?

Must it have laws?

                                        And what

                                    if the universe

                                                    is not about us?

                                        Then what?

                                                    What

                                                           is it about?

                                        And what

                                                                about us?