To the Collective (We): What, If?

you don’t get out
what you put in—

can’t matter
if you believe—
what you believe?

what if this is
after the next life

& then what
do you love,

the struggle
or the self? didn’t

know the setup
until you got setup

against what light—
& again,

no one said
[the trick is to know the trick]
be the delusional
you can’t be—

[freedom of the no longer spellbound]
out of the top hat
the rabbit came—

what if the house you built
resides in the big house
being built?

[believe in your own magic]
a 21st century figure
stripped of color
— no one said:

what if you don’t
get out the identity
you put in?

a work of fiction is real
& again—

what if I told you
it’s all a set up?