The word is, the verb “to be” doesn’t really mean what people think it does. It means that something matches a metaphor, or is well modeled by a concept. For example “this is a car” really means “this thing here seems to be best modeled by the concept of ‘a car’.” Think about why that is. It’s because there is no such thing in the real world as “a car.” Is it possible for you to imagine “a car” (as in a car that has only the purest qualities shared by every car)? No you can’t imagine it because it doesn’t exist, you can only imagine specific cars, a big red car with a sunroof and 2 doors, a small green car with fancy rims and 4 doors, etc. There is no such thing as a car, only types of cars. So saying “this is a car” does not mean this is a car, it means this would be best described as a car, but really it’s a lot of things and I have no idea what it “really is.”

The beginning is near.
Run for the valleys for there is no time to repent
There is only time to applaud

For the Play has not yet begun
We must praise the actors for their stunning
consideration of the script, despite
the fact they will not preform it

A Baptizing wind of of un-religion
will flow through wiping the smiles from the weeping
and placing them on a precipice full of unthinking statues
Creating a blasphemous Easter Island chimera of Teeth and Noses.
A dedication to the last living souls foolish enough to pray to them both.

The beginning is coming
A trick of words that will make you trip into a run
stumbling over and over again till you finally trip again
Falling straight into a sunday morning saunter
because you were running downhill the whole time
And only smooth valley slopes offer such forgiveness.