When Are We

If “time is a group
Of people talking,”
So is God. So’s the cosmos,

But that seems extreme,
As destabilizing as
Fool solipsism,

Nihilism, or any
Of the trippier
Propositions. Let’s just say

We have to say something, if
We’re trying to orient
Ourselves. It’s just that we say

So much more than is needed.
Language leads so well we’re lost.