Through the Cracks
Foolish on the one hand.
Offensive on the other.
Working the edge toward frontiers
yet unknown, bad lands & outlaw
territories: every move I make must
be ridiculous to the savvy and
offensive to the conscientious.
That’s how I know I’m stalwart--
pioneering on the yes-but crack
of culture & custom, convention
& convenience..
“Ridiculous!” declares Smartypants;
“O no you din’t,” shouts Goodness
& Mercy-Me.
Confirming that I walk a cutting
edge; how could it be other wise?
“To be great is to be misunderstood”
says Emerson. But misunderstood
don’t mean great.
Walk on Water (WOW)
Walk on Eggs (WOE)
Blake says a Fool who persists in his Folly
becomes Wise…and the Road of excess
leads to the Palaceof Wisdom
Bromides & bumper-stickers: prayer
beads fingered falling off the edge
into ridiculous on the one hand;
noxious on the other, sustaining
hope for the dead if not the
deadly. .
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