Parallel Lives of a Sink

Twins we are, like the other one,

we don't get along,

he the Evangelical Trumper, the anti-Vaxxer,

Me, the scientist who believes in data

good data.

The roots of our differences, a different scrubbing 

of sorts, a random negligence, too little

time for tending,

I look for truth, since it's not here in the sink.

two adjacent realities