Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Hang Your Clothes on a Hickory Tree but Don't Go Near the Water.
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
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
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
vigorous . Sometimes.
And dead: that too.
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 my homeland
security
systems
protecting my
Directional
Navigational
Algorithms from what ever
might
under-cut, demoralize
contra-addict
&
expose to uncovering
the cover-up which
lets me,
clod of unknowing, go
about my
busyness
despite what ever
kind of trafficking
goes on and
on that I might
could be disturbed
by: 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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" You look at Hamas and you think that they've worked so hard, spent so much money, spilled so much human blood and treasure on building these tunnels, but what is the objective? To destroy and to be destroyed. That is the philosophy of death." Ayaan Hirsi Ali, one of the most courageous people--ever.
ReplyDeleteThis man is also very courageous.
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He loves Socrates and Plato's cave analogy, we see. Too bad the questions he fields at the end are so inappropriate; but he answers well.
Amazing.Humbling.
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