Tuesday, December 4, 2018

God

Every single word’s an ontology
of rhymes—some words have very few.
What’s the ontology of “biology?”
Well, ethnology, cosmology, doxology—
garbology, scatology (oh, pew!).
Every single word’s an anthology
of words within words—morphology,
tautology (to speak what’s true).
So what is the ontology of “biology,”
then?—every word its own mythology,
a regular ontology stew—
typology—
eidolons of cytology, necrology, phrenology.
You can list ‘em till the last shoe
drops, when you’re studyin’ on pedology.
But I think the key to “biology”’s “zoology”—
processional life of ram, kid, and ewe.
Every single word’s a mammalogy—
androgyny?—Well, I’m searching for a Trinity!