I write because my time is limited and my imagination is not.
Recognize beauty As a voracious reader With insomnia
By D. J. Reddall2 years ago in Poets
Burn the ordinary parts of today Write to the rhythm of the gravedigger Let your natural intelligence play With a small riddle and make it bigger
We spend so much time Thinking of clever ways to Avoid real thinking
If tomorrow starts without me It will be what I have sought: A world that I owe nothing Where I will quietly rot
Given what we could Be doing with our brief lives How was this Thursday?
Glib, irresponsible but successful A virtuoso at delegation Smoothly combed, mischievously powerful Fit to rule a tribe or corporation
What would it mean to Grow the ruler in order To shrink the distance? * Modify the means Of measuring the vastness Contract the cosmos
After the death of my father Before the world became illegible Convinced that the pain was selfish, small, childish Determined to explain it nonetheless
What if heaven and Hell are run by the human Resources people?
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." -- Aristotle, as cited in Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. 5, sect. 20
Do not seek revenge The tears of your enemies Will not dry your own
Given the alternatives, why that one? The others are more handsome and robust More generously blessed by the fat sun;
