For Public Broadcast:  A Biography of a Fanatic Who Found the Edge:

—Stumbled off an ignorant ledge.

—Waved the sign: Forget Knowledge.

—Planted sixty-six trees in an apple orchard.

—Squatted a field of brimstone shard.

—Preached that living life ought to be hard.

—Shouted the words of a red-faced preamble.

—From door to door did amble.

—A fount of fate, hold the humble.

Biographer Critiqued: If nothing more—they will say—the heretical dog was American,

The author did his best to conduct—nose notably not in air—a hopeful skeptic’s recon,

Separating empirical truth from mystical ordinance, and judged which best to stand on.