here lies a reasonable man

he had his reasons and kept to them.

when encountering something he deemed

to be unreasonable, he would leave it to its own devices

and move on to more reasonable things.

when the reasonable man wanted something,

he’d weigh the prose and cons to decide

what is reasonable or unreasonable, then

draw a conclusion between the two, leaning

toward the most reasonable.

but if the reasonable man needed something,

even though it might be deemed to be unreasonable,

he’d hop right to it because he would assume

it was the reasonable thing to do.

on July 12, in the year of his Lord, he reasoned

that a bus ride up the mountainside would be faster

than walking up the mountainside, unaware that

halfway to his destination the bus, for unknown reasons,

for whatever reason, for reasons unknown but to God,

would veer off the cliff sinking into the murky muck far below

ending the life of a reasonable man.