Maps

Maps

We've looked and looked, but after all where are we?

Do we know any better where we are. . .?

--Robert Frost

All maps are arrogant.
Maps actually believe they know
where everything is.

Mall maps are the most egotistical of all,
they place an X on their condescending selves
with the words:
YOU ARE HERE!

If we know where we are
then it is possible to extrapolate,
but will that help?
These egomaniacal navigational tools
say:
Go this way and you’ll be there.
Go that way and you’ll be
at some other there,

still I am left asking myself:
Do I place my faith
in these topographical lines
and color coded roads
printed on a sheet of paper
that can only be refolded
by some master of origami?