I pledge allegiance

I pledge allegiance to my spin and charge.

I pledge allegiance to water and to this pond...the perfect place to float, to be green, or to replicate.

I pledge allegiance to the colony and the graces of sailing, stinging, and ingesting.

I pledge allegiance to my clan. We are over here. They are over there.

I pledge allegiance to an indivisible nation...divided by dead abstractions of party, corporation, municipality, and indivisibility...and to the flag for which we stand or sit or kneel.

I pledge allegiance to the other indivisible nations with whom we trade and war and merge and divide.

And to all of Earth's children...the animals and plants...our clothing, our food, our friends, and our teachers. I pledge allegiance.

And to the Sun and his System...for warmth and shelter and storm. 

I descend to the substance...to the rational parts without meaning...then soar irrationally among the conscious, insubstantial wholes.

The Freedom of this dual motion...I transcend even that.

In the name of the continuum, the irrational, and the rationals. Amen.

I pledge allegiance.