Apologia

I'm reading "A Merlin for Me" by John Loft right now, a book chronicling Mr. Loft's training of a young merlin in the UK and interspersed with some wonderful poetry. This particular poem stood out as I read it this morning:

APOLOGIA

Hawking is useless,

Brings no advancement,

Is economically negligible, ecologically neutral,

Ethically irrelevant, and thoroughly anti-social.

That's what makes it so attractive.

Accomplishing the death of a lark is

Too insignificant to register on the Richter Scale

Of human endeavour

Yet is the Enterprise that transports me to the platform

Where I become myself.