Free verse № 132478
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what do you want from me,
sad, senseless, decrepit sentry?
you dangle from the moulding near
the ceiling like a soggy cobweb
and stare through the darkness.
rich, black velvet sheets slide apart
so that your gaze may fall upon me
while i sleep.
so what do you want from me,
museless monster, useless corner?
i'm afraid i've moved my bed too far away
to feel your saliva fall.
you try to spray it.
dangling smoke molecules coagulate
and block those drops from hitting home.
what did you say to me,
whisper of jibberish,
a strand of senseless syllables
worming through my ear canal?
was i supposed to find great joy
or great sorrow
in your meaningless and souless tirade?
did you expect my waist or hips to bend and pull
my torso toward your lips?
who would you forgive first?
the selfish or the selfless?
and who do you more accurately
resemble?
and could you place a pen to paper
selfishly or selflessly,
what dialect of english
would you ramble?
18 comments
PS-You should consider "Arabic".
"U.S. Military Deaths Reach 2,000 in Iraq"
God will more likely admit the selfish to heaven, because the selfish has at least secured the well-being of one person during his lifetime - himself - while the selfless has possibly not done so. For all we know, the selfless killed himself building movie theatres on small tropic islands to show Wes Anderson films to their mystified and disappointed inhabitants.
God will most likely FORGIVE the selfless first, though, because the selfless is more likely to be stupid, and stupid people deserve forgiveness. I'm not saying selfless people are stupid, I'm saying if 5% of actually selfless people are stupid, 4% of actually selfish people are. It's all about probabilities.
I predict the totally unproductive direction this conversation takes is going to hinge on whether we define selfishness as (1) working for one's own well-being before others' or (2) doing the drugs and raping everybody and stepping on kittens and never working for anyone's well-being ever - i.e., greediness to the point of self-destruction. I propose accepting definition (1) from the start. Definition (2) is for losers and Bushies and doesn't make any sense.
Neither did I say a crazy person will think defecating is the most logical thing he does that day. Defecating WILL be the most logical thing he does; but he'll likely THINK pulling out his own teeth (or, for that matter, lying prostate and pleading for salvation) is the most logical thing. That's the part of crazy pretend-crazies don't get.
"[The] total of Iraqi dead since the American-led invasion is 26,690 to 30,051... A recent analysis [shows] that more than 60 Iraqis were killed daily this year, up from 40 last year."
-today's NY Times
What's your solution? "I don't care, so I'm under no obligation to do anything"?
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