Still About Balance

wow. more than a year. just like that.
and it’s not that nothing was going on
rather more like everything was going on
looking back at the sustainable stuff though
it’s weirdly, exactly, relevant, now.
Balance seems to be the coherent principle
at all levels
it’s chaotic, I mean like chaos theory, fractal chaotic.
each element of my life, once the onion skins are peeled away
is best explained by the idea of a guage or meter
things wrong or right about physical health or mental state
even the magnitude of this right/wrongness
can be read off the scale once you’ve fixed your position
you say “duh, you should’ve been born East, young man,
you’d have know all that by age 2
and it’s true