The poem discusses eudaimonia and apatheia, referring to the concepts of human flourishing and lack of passion in Greek philosophy. It mentions Giordano Bruno who was imprisoned for six years and burned at the stake for proposing ideas about the vastness of the universe that contradicted the church's teachings. The poem emphasizes free will and how sages have understood the vastness of the universe.

1. EUDAIMONIA
by YVETTE MARIE
APATHEIA! APATHEIA! APATHEIA!
Each Eudaimonious Star
Speeds Its Infinite Last Rights
Screaming-
"PROHAIRESIS IS NOT HARESY!
SIX YEARS OF PRISON CONFINEMENT;
GIORDANO BRUNO BURNED AT THE STAKE FOR OUR SAKE!"
VASTNESS OF THE UNIVERSE HAS KNOWN
SAGES!
FREE WILL
STROKES THE
SKIES!