The muddle of philosophy
begins with epistemology
the word for how we think at all
For if we think of how we think we
realize the muddle thing
because there are a thousand
starting points
as varied as a chance impulse
a simultaneous tick
an itchy finger
soon so many co-extensive things
that soon we see that thinking
involves clearing mists
and focusing
in which case our epistemology
is already doomed to be just
what we say it is
long after we have already
"thought" so much
