Rapt

 Rapt.
 
Flannery O. loved her some
fundamentalist preachers,
bible thumpers, snake handlers:
good  country people & just as
soon hang with them as milk
toast Episcopalians & savvy
Unitarians.
 
And an aging Gregory B
preferred nu age Esalen vegans
& masseurs, acute puncturists &
I Ching throwers  to the  canny 
professional positivist empiricists
he grew up with practicing his
anthropological cybernetic systems
& communication theory. 
 
Goodies must have edge to them,
else they are none says Ralph E..
Pox on both houses, said Greg.
But during these turbulent and
 troubled times  the excesses of
californication are preferable to
the picayune reductions of  the
scientific community for better
and for worse.

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice  R. Frost