Overthinking is challenged in this parable about being pulled into categorical thinking by virtue of growing up

All is Taffy

Considering how opposite the world:

Throat singing of the Tuvan of the Altai and Sayans

        against despair

Hollering mad lost eyes asquint alarmed

        or zazen

Considering partnership:

Hawk-ripped sinew from road kill skunk

        or scraping stones free of lichen

The engine walls of engorged vagina purring fit to burst

        and waterfalls

The quest to harvest category:

To link, an illusion

        while all is taffy

Pink orange baby blue maple taffy

Through the vacation window

Drawn by bowed steel limbs

Slick and firm and sweet

Fused forever in a moment

        ‘til you are pulled away