Episode 10: Doing What Comes Naturally

Terrastina agrees to help judge a poetry contest. I don’t know why I said yes, she tells Mazolli, I know next to nothing about poetry. Are there a lot of them? asks Mazolli. Terrastina hands him a bulging file folder thick with dozens of poems. Mazolli leafs through the pages. I think poems are supposed to be about truth, he says. Okay, says Terrastina, but how does that help me? It doesn’t, says Mazolli. We’re too old to know what the truth is anymore. I’ll take these to the twins and see what a couple of experts think.