-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.
replying on abortion by darylchew
28 Aug 2004, 6:16 PM
The aborted foetus flung it. It's revenge because the foetus was well pissed off at being aborted.
Foetal rage from beyond the grave is a touching topic. And the yoda-like dialogue - "forgotten, I will be" - was a nice touch. Shame about the "all lower case" and "arbitrary line breaks", though :( -10-
Yes, lobotomized people feel neither grief nor comfort, I am told. So, why not have your frontal lobe severed when in grief? I don't think the procedure is done anymore. And if it were, that ends all emotion. This seems like way too simple a question, and too simple an answer. You must be asking something else. Or do you belong to the First Church of Lobotomy?
By flinging the aborter through the windshield, of course.
During your times of need and grief, do you envy religious people more than lobotomised people?
Besides the reasons wilco gives, religion is important for its magnificent churches where I can go on a hot summer day and sit for awhile contemplating its long history, the craftsmen who planned and carved, and the peasants who thought it important enough to give their money for its construction.
From my POV there are less than 32 truths here and more than one lie. Still, it's a nice collection of sayings and could-be-trues.
I read this yesterday and did not comment because I did not understand what you are saying. Perhaps you are holding a criminal who will soon be executed. Perhaps the person is terminally ill. Something is urgent in time, but what?
I will assume you have read more than five today. Thanks.
And for those of us who have not the strength for those declarations, there is always TS Eliot’s “I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas.” But there is time, up to a point, for change, “And time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions.”
I am always questioning. Faith, logic, and death are subjects that don’t rest well when put together in my head. Most people in the world settle on some religion to help them through the dilemmas and conflicts these three present, and they hold to the ideals of their upbringing or to others they have found along the way. They build elaborate doctrinal structures and elaborate cathedrals, which seem to anchor them to what they hope is true. Religion is important because it provides comfort in their times of need and grief. I often wish I could be so comforted.
don't know what to think for sure. the style is new to me, and it seems a bit forced in places. Overall a good pome tho'
its funny.
Important for what?
The answer to the question your poem asks is not in churches it is true. It's not in the sky nor in the forests either. Maybe it's in RLS's Requiem "Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill." Or Donne's(?)" Glad did I live/And gladly die/And I lay myself down with a will." Good thought-provoking poem. One point better than your personal average. -10-
The two poems preceding these comments are the best I've ever posted on poemranker. I'd forgotten them.
i like this poem it's really good