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Thanks for commenting! Ceremonies consist of a series of absurd steps to achieve something, sometimes answers that might not even exist, and some people's lives, I think, have the structure of a ceremony. I guess that's where the poem is going.

That makes sense. It seems like most ceremonies are tied to religions in some way. As such they probably serve to help people search for and find meaning in life. And maybe sometimes you have to touch the absurd to arrive there.