When there is no other 
easy option we will panic 
and turn on one another 
and worry when there is 
no point because 
that is what we have been raised 
to do. In spite of all my barbaric yawps 
the universe does not change
and neither do we; but
the futility of the situation
is no more a deterrent 
than all the abject fears
we learned watching television
in the age before cable.