if you believe in poetry

if you believe an online quiz
can say a lot about you
then that says a lot about you

if you believe a horoscope
can say meaningful things about your fate
that says meaningful things about your fate

if you believe the vaccines
will make you sick
that says how sick you are

if you believe we never
went to the moon
your head’s in outer space

if you believe you can
win a fight by cutting off your own nose
you’ve got something wrong with your face

if you believe that water
has memory
either you never took a science class
or there’s something wrong with your memory

I believe pretending is fun
I believe pretending is grand
but if you think that
I just don’t understand
I think that you just don’t understand

I believe the universe is so much more
than a random arrangement of the stars
I believe there’s so much more to you
than a meyer-briggs score in your task bar
I believe that pattern recognition misapplied
drives us the craziest that we can be by far