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What A Mess weighs doubt against disbelief and pushes back against the huge climb, finally landing on a rough command to leave the enormity alone and endure the return of disbelief.

The page is skeptical in a productive way. Instead of treating certainty as salvation, it makes room for disbelief as a tool of self-preservation.

'What A Mess' grades faith downward in a deadpan ladder: 'Doubt is good / Disbelief is better / Association with the huge climb is worse,' so striving toward Heaven is the real error and the cure is to 'leave it alone and like yourself.' The doubled-letter ending 'Again,, or for the first timee' lets disbelief arrive twice over, freshly each time, undercutting the whole upward metaphor from the side rather than head-on.