Problematic Eden, by idle Aristotle

at first each thing was named for the work it did

that was what a thing was

a tree thing did all the tree work

and there was no work it did that was not tree

and you did not 

have a name for yourself, no thing did

until you saw its work was done

and you could not see the ends of your effort 

because that would be a new effort and so on

but we were born and died by the millions

and still we did not know how to speak our name

in the time of naming, we did not speak a name to ourselves

because all things seemed in our reach, all things seemed out of reach

but reachable

we did not say this is our reach, this is our human work

so we could not say we do no work that is not human

what are the problems of the tree? its problems are not its work

they are other work from other things, but this problem

is not itself nameable by its work, as we were not nameable by our work

though we seem a thing, we will not say what thing

we will work our work but our work will be beyond our work

when the earth was young we could not say our names

and now the earth is old and our work is the work of other things upon

the names of things which work their work upon the earth,

which do no work which is not in their name,

and our work that makes our name is not a thing which can be named;

we call our problems up by names that have no work