poems, novels, movies, graduation
speeches, far away places: signs &
symbols, evidence of heroism & cool:
defiance of culture, conventions &
convenience: ranting & raging
against machines. Out of the
Boxer Rebellion:
I hear tell
I salute
I advise:
Look, I say: act like that,
like the liberal artist: follow
your gnosis and passion;
don’t do what I do for
heaven’s sakes but
what I say.
I don’t practice what I teach,
you got a problem with that?
Risky business. I’d be
embarrassed.
I AM embarrassed.
But I love to teach it, preach it:
I dare you to eat a peach:
it’s the liberal art crying
out loud. Read my lips.
Emerson’s “Self Reliance,” I
declare: “It’s a beaut!” &
Thoreau’s Walden: that
smarty-pants rascal!
Write this down:
“You go, guys,
and do like wise.”
I quote again and again.
Reference as we say now
a days. The massive men
lead lives of quite quaint
desperation, and how can
I use my ignorance which
my growth requires when
I have so often got to
be correct?
xxxooo, Sam
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