as i lay in bed last night, staring at the ceiling

i thought to myself: it's bigger in here than it is out there.

and i wondered whether that was true, since such a thought demands some scrutiny, since such a boast is not to be made idly, without examination. and i thought of all the limitless universe, with galaxies unexplored and vast swaths of unknowable emptiness, and of astronomers and physicists and mathematicians who think about and probe all the endless reaches of space.

and i decided: it's bigger in here than it is out there.

there's just as much unexplored in here, but I can get to all of it if I try hard enough. It is vast but not unknowable.