"We are a small and lonely human race/ Showing no sign of mastering solitude/ Out on this stony planet that we farm./ The most that we can do for one another/ Is let our blunders and our blind mischances/ Argue a certain brusque abrupt compassion./ We might as well be truthful.../" From "Stepping Backward" -- a poem by Adrienne Rich
I recently read this book and its ending shocked me. Now I see this strikingly similar story and am left to shake my head and wonder what the fuck is wrong with the human animal...
posted by reasonably prudent poet at 10:10 PM
only simple and quiet words will ripen of themselves -- tao teh ching
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