I watched the lake water lap over the pier gently rippling it's way across it's lichened concrete. I thought to myself "Does this submersion not pose an existential question of the pier?" If a pier is made to exist above the water level and its innate qualities and usefulness originate in its height above the lake water, can it be said to still exist? Or is it now just an underwater platform? Has it lost all meaning to this life that it cannot fulfill what it was brought into this world to do? I for one question how long a pier can sustain this attack on its identity as an above-water being. There will come a point when it can no longer suffer this wetting. Or maybe the lake level will just fall. Who knows!?
