Possible Futures

How much does it matter that I can square the circle before the sun sets today? How much does it matter that three men we hired forced the boy to bend a willow tree, until its top leaves kissed the earth, the sacred earth? How much does it mean that we danced on the Moon with no help fromgravity? How much does it mean that the novel I saw whole and complete in a vision is mine to write? Will the Great Wheel lurch forward into its iron future? Or will we simply fall into deep sleep and dream of a society of sincere hearts?