11-29-2025, 08:18 AM
In Stability
The grand thing about
a table of ranks, of peerage,
a pecking order, if you will,
is not that it gives some airs
and others at least a place
to belong, knowing
which direction to look up
for orders
and patronage.
No, the grand thing
about such hierarchies
is the almighty smash
when some catastrophe
upends them and the little people
though poorer still
can stir the wreckage
with feelings of
self-justification.
The grand thing about
a table of ranks, of peerage,
a pecking order, if you will,
is not that it gives some airs
and others at least a place
to belong, knowing
which direction to look up
for orders
and patronage.
No, the grand thing
about such hierarchies
is the almighty smash
when some catastrophe
upends them and the little people
though poorer still
can stir the wreckage
with feelings of
self-justification.
Non-practicing atheist