\ Unlikely Stories: Better That We Not by Jonathan Penton
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Better that we not
try to make a connection;
we were surviving just fine without.
Better that we deal with our limited perspectives
than open the floodgates of inadequacy that communication
represents.

Salmon connect, but they die for their efforts;
better to live with a shallow horizon
than become lost
in the landscape
of the beauty of others.