Moral life cannot be anchored
in a rule
golden or otherwise

nevertheless we must respond
to its pressures

and indeed
it is because

moral life rest upon a base
of nothing more than its own interpretation
that it can have a content

for where there a clearly marked path
that assured the safety of pilgrims
we would have no decisions to make

nothing to hazard

nothing to wager


Stanley Fish. There is no such thing as free speach. p. 272