Expert Opinion

I should start out by saying
that the trees look like a system of veins
and that it’s winter, obviously.

I notice this because the eastern wall
of my tiny apartment is a giant window
that lets the sun into my room every morning
to rip the blanket from me and get me to school on time.

Tonight I look out of my window as a skeptic
because the author of my geology textbook
thinks that volcanoes are made out of red paper.
And if the experts can believe such ridiculous things,
what right do I have to believe in anything?

The trees are not made of paper, fools!
they are made of wood,
and paper is made of them.