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"Manic Panic" "Manic Panic"
by Jan Sand
2008-11-19 09:11:06
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The dangers of defence
Are accountably immense
As the things of everyday can testify.
Everything with edges

Sharp enough to trim the hedges
Can decapitate, or at least, put out an eye.
With a mien most fundamentalist
And a sharpened ice cream stick
Any nut can take his pick
Of any installation list,
Atomic power station, Capitol of the nation,
Anywhere or any place
To turn the Feds into disgrace
With explosions, soil erosions, or massive defecation.
From any source, with no remorse,
The terror can emit
To cause a public fit.
A mass of horrid stomach gas, a psychotic horse,
A strategic loosened shoelace,
The ace of spades out of place,
Anything could smash the nation.
A bumblebee inside the pants
Of the minister of finance
Could initiate frightful deflation.
So how can we
Be calm, be free
Coldly sweating through our lives at nights?
We must dare to foreswear
Matches, scissors, remain bare
Doff all clothes from underwear to tights.
Naked then, women and men,
Every one, surely then,
Could never hide anything offensive.
Calm and nude
We could conclude
It's reasonless to be apprehensive
So imbued, husbands and wives,
Children, dogs
And pet frogs
 Can inhabit safe and pointless lives.


 
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Emanuel Paparella2008-11-19 11:16:37
Thoreau wrote that “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.” Indeed, we humans are experts in deceiving ourselves with words. If we admitted that we were living lives of quiet desperation we would feel compelled to change our lives. Since we refuse to give up our tried and comfortable ways, we make the situation more palatable when we falsely describe our quiet desperation as resignation. Resignation sound so much more mature than “quite desperation.” We are afraid of the child in us for fear of appearing ridiculously childish, and yet it is the child in us who could tell us something about our existential predicament and spiritual-intellectual nakedness by shouting that the emperor is naked despite his delusions of complete control. The trick in following our dreams and becoming authentic is to remain a child without becoming childish. The first hint of that awareness is to stop prescribing from a superior “enlightened” perch what the world needs and begin asking ourselves what makes us come alive and go do it. That is what the world needs: people who have come alive.


Sand2008-11-19 11:42:01
There you go, consigning all religions to the bonfire you seem to favor. Throwing the baby with the bath onto a bonfire seems to be a rather strongly self conflicting metaphor.


Chris2008-11-21 19:05:13
Well written. Good alegory. Direct symbolism.
Rythmic harmony. Well done. Well done.


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