Ultra Sound Tickles

Ultra Sound Tickles (By Moji Agha) 

Ultrasound tickles tickle soundly; 
Or do they? 

Do they have a choice in the matter? 
Or they tickle the trunk of pain reflexively, 
to cause reflective pained chuckles
at our deep folly? 

Do ultrasound tickles 
tickle soundly by nature? 
Or do they learn, 
by nurture,
to cause ultra tickles? 

Or alas, 
do nature and nurture
are tickle-dancing together,
as they always have? 

Now, 
talking about my tickled trunk: 
Does a lonely tree
fallen in the forest 
of human ignorance 
make a sound (perhaps an ultra sound),
when tickled by the seeing sounds of climate change? 
Can the ultra sounds 
of the worried hearts, 
of those who have "washed their eyes"
see one another? 

Can they see, hear, touch, smell, and taste
the fallen tree's sound of ultra pain? 
Of ultra warning?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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August 26, 2021 at 3:44 PM
Interesting verse
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