russian roulette

sometimes questions force themselves into awkward encounters
like medieval bulgarian battering rams
and like battering rams,
access is gained into a space
which is otherwise intently protected
...and stonewalled

some ancients and eastern customs
withhold the practice of posing questions
because of the belief that
questions are the unholy offspring
of greed, impatience,
or refusal to listen

maybe questions are conducive to these beliefs