Waking Life
Nobody Loves an Either/Or
Given the choice between wealth or
wisdom, Solomon chose wisdom.
Given the choice between kindness
and genius, I asked my class:
which would you chose?
No not-choosing allowed. Can't
serve two magisteries.
My Young Professionals
I accuse my colleagues of trying to
garden in tuxedos. Dirty work and
they insist on staying clean and sober,
stainless steel--eschewing confusion
and all themess that mothers invention.
Neat & Tidy, all done up in formal world
wide pants. Ok. sing hallelujah to the
choir then, and be done with it. But
don't be considering your self local foodist.
or gardener.
Sheep herd, maybe but even they wore
smelly wooly coats and slept in fields.
Nasty.
Dear Anonymous (May): your response came thru e-mail but not on this page. Makes good sense to me, what you say. You say it bettern I do actually--as you did with my notions on pretty poetry.
ReplyDeletePS May-- wish I could get your kind of reaction from the colleagues I am also spamming these rants at - rice at rhinos. I think they are IED's but that's my grandiose presumption.
ReplyDeleteMay: damnit - who are you? I want to know. Just reread your anonymous Waking Life and you get it, if you don't mind my patronizing. I'm an old guy: I can.
ReplyDeleteFrom Hosanna, yer own exclamation:
ReplyDelete"Afflict the afflicted!
The comfortable are comfortable
Fortified: might as well throw rice
at rhinos."
I think your rants are IEDs (improvised explosive devise, yeah?), potential energy for a multiplicity of directions, homemade and considerably un-conventional; more for the masses, I'd like to think. But even IEDs don't go off all the time. But being unconventional, being improvised, don't seem like they'd be for the tuxedoed few who'd have the gall and disposition to participate.
Explosions are messy. If you're big enough rice is easy to ignore. Being comfortable isn't just detonation on impact (being a rhino for rice to bounce off of), it's WANTING to wear that tuxedo to the garden and not get messy.
-MAY (a young student, someone small enough to get shook, who isn't big enough or mature enough to make sure she's sober before jungle gym hopping or serious play time.)
Well, I'd give you A for audacity (great sass) and accuracy as well as my appreciation for someone who gives as good as she takes. Probably an environmental studies major because these days I find (in my claases) they seem to be the best writers. ok ok - possibly you are creative writing major. English Major: no--they're all Tuxedos in the Garden.
ReplyDeletePS - are your initials N.R.? Just guessing. Intrigued.
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