Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Afflict the Afflicted

Afflict the Afflicted
 
The Comfy, comfortified,
are rhinos;  but the wounded
& vulnerable (damaged &
damaging, damnit): them are
just  asking for it--half  way  
there already.
 
Fantasy has free play—
poised between acting in
the material world,
and taking it as a field
for detached symbolic play.
      (Lewis Hyde, Trickster)
 
Which rib was it actually that
God yanked to make Eve?
 
Einstein claimed imagination is
more important than knowledge
and rode a beam of light thinking
about relatives.
 
“Bears don’t talk, Daddy,” she
said—ruining forever our
appreciation of Winnie
the Pooh.

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