Here's a small poem I always dug:
"DIFFICULTY ALONG THE WAY
Seeking Perfect Total Enlightenment
is looking for a flashlight
when all you need the flashlight for
is to find your flashlight"
—Lew Welch
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ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY
2000 American Book Award winner
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"
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MY LIFE 2
When I was 10,
I thought I was "Irish,"
even though I was
born in the USA.
When I was 20,
I thought I was "Black,"
even though my skin
is pink & freckled,
my hair is straight,
and I have no
African ancestry.
When I was 30,
I thought I was "queer,"
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married and had
two children, and
most of my fantasies
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pulsions & attractions
were and had always
been (up until then)
about women.
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"movie star," even
though the movies
were terrible, and
I was terrible in
them, and almost
no one knew them,
or who I might
have been in them.
When I was 50,
I thought I was
"enlightened," even
though I wasn't.
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and am—enlightened,
as I was and still am
—an Irish-Black-
Queer-Movie-Star.
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5 comments:
that's like when Ikkyu talks about so many people walking on the street - they know, but don't know that they know ;-)
good poem to start the afternoon.
I found
flash-light
in
the last place
I looked
Lew always did take one extra unnecessary step
especially with the [...]
I'm in favor of Imperfect Partial Enlightenment. It doesn't hurt as much as the other kind.
---TPW
what about batteries ...
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