Margaret Fuller
Transcendentalist
once said
“I accept the Universe”
to which 
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalist
replied
“Gad! She’d better!”
I would have made
a lousy Transcendentalist
under such a
thought regime
When it comes to the Universe
I accept that it’s here
and that I’m in it but I suspect
acceptance of this is part
of an elaborate trap
to keep me blissed out
You can tell me otherwise
but right now I’m thinking
of other names for it
and other ways it should be
and how it might be best blown up
and refashioned
I don’t accept it as is
and Fuller and Emerson
(who for all their talk of justice
and suchlike seem to have done
more talking about than fighting for
the best possible Universe)
can do what they do best and
go take a hike
in the Utopian woods
out on the edge of this city
that is a part of the Universe
that is a part of my Universe
that is a wobbling wheel
of broken spokes and worn hub
and tread that can’t catch a grip
on the filthy blood and toxic sludge
that’s rising everywhere
that gets on everything
that is impossible and immoral
for me
to willingly transcend
without making an effort
to actively reject it 
and expel it from 
this Universe