Some Ways One More Dream of Dying
Some ways I spend entire days trying to explain some of it back to myself.
1. There are two sides to choose from.
One side says there are two sides to choose from.
The other says, "What other side? We're all that is."
To not try to strike a compromise between these two positions is seen as bias.
2. One side says, "I want it all."
The other side says, "Well, let's split it 50/50."
The first side then responds, "Okay, we'll compromise. Give me three quarters."
At this point, now starting at three o'clock, the process need not really even
repeat but a few times to keep half-life minute inching itself counter-clockwise toward the hour.
3. Once the center has been moved enough to the right,
then the true center appears to be the left, and the true left appears to have disappeared.
4. A few organs of the body are supposed to keep the rest of it in check like,
"Oh, don't worry, the mouth is keeping an eye on the hands."
To suggest the eyes, mouth, and hands may have common interests is seen as a radical notion.
5. Parenthetically, if I could have written the poem I'd have preferred to write,
it would have been called "My Dream Of Dying In Manner Number 55,208:
Killed by an Intruder Burglaring My Home While Running Downstairs to Fetch the Wife Some Olives, Which I had Planned To Please Her by Waking Her With."
That poem, however rich with potential, and though I know it is the poem I aim to write, just isn't coming to me.
6. The victimizers (i.e. those with the power to present themselves in their own terms, and also present others in whatever terms they choose to show the others in) choose to present themselves as victims; the conspirators as victims of a conspiracy.
1. There are two sides to choose from.
One side says there are two sides to choose from.
The other says, "What other side? We're all that is."
To not try to strike a compromise between these two positions is seen as bias.
2. One side says, "I want it all."
The other side says, "Well, let's split it 50/50."
The first side then responds, "Okay, we'll compromise. Give me three quarters."
At this point, now starting at three o'clock, the process need not really even
repeat but a few times to keep half-life minute inching itself counter-clockwise toward the hour.
3. Once the center has been moved enough to the right,
then the true center appears to be the left, and the true left appears to have disappeared.
4. A few organs of the body are supposed to keep the rest of it in check like,
"Oh, don't worry, the mouth is keeping an eye on the hands."
To suggest the eyes, mouth, and hands may have common interests is seen as a radical notion.
5. Parenthetically, if I could have written the poem I'd have preferred to write,
it would have been called "My Dream Of Dying In Manner Number 55,208:
Killed by an Intruder Burglaring My Home While Running Downstairs to Fetch the Wife Some Olives, Which I had Planned To Please Her by Waking Her With."
That poem, however rich with potential, and though I know it is the poem I aim to write, just isn't coming to me.
6. The victimizers (i.e. those with the power to present themselves in their own terms, and also present others in whatever terms they choose to show the others in) choose to present themselves as victims; the conspirators as victims of a conspiracy.