Candor & Civility and Can They Just Get Along?

“Christ, what are patterns for?”
                       Amy Lowell,
 
 Candor and Civility
      Innovation and Rigor
             Walking on Water (WOW)
                       Walking on Eggs (WOE)
 
A pattern there, if I don’t get caught
up in the differences. Hostile &
incommensurate notions
but complementary if
I can sustain the
opposition &
not collapse
into one or
the other.  
 
My old man told me “People are more
Important than Ideas, son.”  And he’s
right, but I prefer ideas.
 
When I accused him of having an ego
big as  any body he said, “Yes, but
mine’s crucified.”
 
A good idea. 

An immaculate concept, say:
crucified ego as a consummation
devoutly to be desired.

Wouldn’t I get along much better? I
believeI would: frank & honest as
well as civil; a rigorous innovator
if my ego was crucified.

I'd walk on water as well as eggs,
like anything,