All neurons go,

But soft responses garner no repose.

What’s a stimulus to do? Keep pandering,

Reiterating, tittering, and changing the rules of the game.

Not too long ago, it took

Some twenty small sensations to garner one repsonse. Then ten.

The body learns, the brain teaches, fear.

The stuff of dreams, of nightmares, of casual thoughts —

That’s evolution. That’s change we can believe in,

If not quite. If only when, survey says —

Eliminate all doubts from your mind, those lines form a dog.