Saturday, March 27, 2010

A Safe Place

A Safe Place
 
“The weight of this sad time,
we must obey. Speak what
we feel, not what we ought
to say.”  from King Lear
 
“Neither logic nor sermons
convince.”
 
To “provide a safe place,”
we say again and again—for
this and that which in other
words would be risky business:
coming out, coming forward,
coming across  "a soul’s
crossing  time.”.
 
And if I pay attention, take
good notes, book-it & do
well in classes manage time
and load, I needn’t have to
go thru hell, Vietnam, say,
Iraq, my own Private
Idaho:
 
Skirt & circle round,
Caesarean short-cut &
no full-labor need apply. 
 
In Europe, school is called
gymnasium—naked training,
safe place for naked  training,
padded walls, mats  and
cushions, stretching exercise
wellness before rings &
parallel bars.
.
Gymnastic.
 
In my courses, half of each
class: a silent masquerade
& safe place to declare in
writing: commentate,
opinionize, make monkeys
of ourselves:  Fools Rush
Inn  under guise of 
pseudonym, fake names:
 
A safe place  to split an
infinitive, mix meta force,
misplace modification:
room for play, margin
for error, & a good
time had by all.
 
Non-rigorous in the
watch-out be careful
wide load moving
through volumes of
cerebral dead lines &
squinty-eyed scrutiny.
red-inked correct-
ificational power-
point attention 
efficient information
transfer kind.
 
But sometimes
vigorous
 
Trampoline
jumps and
leaps of fat
faith this
sporting life:
a safe place
to crash,
ooops,
ooomy
gawd I get IT.
for crying out
loud. Eureka.
Saved.
 .
My own safe place is
a bubble of  oblivion,
salved & salvaging the
homeland security
systems protecting my
Directional  
Navigational
Algorithms
from what ever might
under-cut, demoralize
contra-addict & expose,
uncovering  the cover- up
which lets me, clod of
unknowing, go about my
busyness despite what
ever trafficking goes on
and on that might could
disturb me: me railing
against, standing- for &
letting IT be known  I
disapprove; count me in
with the disapprovers, it’s
safe to say against the bad
guys, stupid, blithering,
confused & ignorant,
where there by the
grass of god go I.

 

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