Seven Corners

the Israelis have nukes

under wraps in the Negev

maybe, possibly,

the geometric mean between

the extremes of agnosticism

and ignosticism

and the nihilists crack smirks

that edify the theses of

apparently contrarian worldviews

humans are scum and when left

to their own devices,

they tend to do themselves in

yet you stand in the corner

and see three other corners

and really, you see seven 

corners from that one corner

missing the whole picture syndrome,

in the smartass parlance

humans live between the

agnostic and ignostic extremes,

and the totally negative subset

of humankind is no different

they can't or won't admit

that the positive exists in

some way, shape or form

and yet, those who are 

nihilistically-inclined

are not far off

the Negev may be

the Israeli version of

the American Great Plains,

and the wild card that may

when them a hand in this

weird poker game called

mutually assured destruction

the clearest part of the murk

is still seen,

we live on the edge of a

subtle knife that can cut

black holes into 

alternate realities

and we haven't been that far yet

let's hope that's the whole picture,

the seven corners seen from our 

collective single corner vantage point