The Whywolf

The whywolf has questions about flower stamens.

The whywolf doesn’t get why lightbulbs work,

not the electricity part but like the mechanism itself.

The whywolf’s search history is full of questions

like “Why do airplanes crash” and “Why do

people get divorced” and “Why cancer” and

“Why wasps.” The whywolf wants to be able

to fix everything, if we’re being honest. It wants

to prepare for any terrible maybe or eventuality

so as to most efficiently stem or stopper or instantly

obliterate it. The whywolf is pretty sure that enough

understanding will render the wild world safe.

That nightmare unknowns are just dark rooms

and knowledge is a floodlight. It has to be this way,

thinks the whywolf. It has to. Because.