“To hold a vase filled to the brim,
without spilling anything,
is impossible; better not to fill it so.”
Lao-Tzu, I am certain
has never heard of
diabetes insipidus
which is caused by
having not enough
antidiuretic hormone
and keeps one
forever thirsty
What is a brim
anyway if not
Whitman’s hat & boots?
Would that any man
who expresses disapproval
over that which was
born already
filled to the brim
begin to understand Time
And if he wants
to find said brim
he may begin to ask people
what time it was
rather than what time it is
And when that man
spills over living as if
nothing begins or ends
Perhaps Lao-Tzu’s
Philistine epiphany
will hold him in
Maybe the elements
will have mercy on his brim
and not wear down its edges
until gravity pulls out
that which was always
feral
Our own universe
of which we have drawn maps
still contains
black holes
Some say that Desire
the cause of all suffering
should be yielded to
for its own sake
like a current
I find this problematic
since all suffering
could just as easily
be fetishized
It was Porn
rather than democracy
that we found
in Iraq
Have you ever
fantasized abt
doing a love scene
w/ someone
and getting off
before anything
is actually
experienced?
Without a brim
we would just
stare in one
another’s eyes
all day long
“Better not to
fill it so,”
says Lao Tzu
Since
being a sage
keeps one from ever
singing the blues
Lao Tzu
never sung
the Underwhelmed Blues
or the Never Quite Enough Blues
or even the Insufficiently Distracted Blues
Walt Whitman
being a whore
and not a sage
was well aware
of his own brim
“O Christ! My fit has mastered me!”
He would have been
damned by sages
for refusing
to calculate
“What is less or more than a touch?”
The Ill-fitted
tend to be
lousy at math
Whitman had not reckoned
a brim any more
than he had reckoned 1000 acres
or the earth
“Logic and sermons never convince,
The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.”
So what that means
children
is hear not their sermons
you are the sermon
& you will never spill
any more
than you already have.
without spilling anything,
is impossible; better not to fill it so.”
Lao-Tzu, I am certain
has never heard of
diabetes insipidus
which is caused by
having not enough
antidiuretic hormone
and keeps one
forever thirsty
What is a brim
anyway if not
Whitman’s hat & boots?
Would that any man
who expresses disapproval
over that which was
born already
filled to the brim
begin to understand Time
And if he wants
to find said brim
he may begin to ask people
what time it was
rather than what time it is
And when that man
spills over living as if
nothing begins or ends
Perhaps Lao-Tzu’s
Philistine epiphany
will hold him in
Maybe the elements
will have mercy on his brim
and not wear down its edges
until gravity pulls out
that which was always
feral
Our own universe
of which we have drawn maps
still contains
black holes
Some say that Desire
the cause of all suffering
should be yielded to
for its own sake
like a current
I find this problematic
since all suffering
could just as easily
be fetishized
It was Porn
rather than democracy
that we found
in Iraq
Have you ever
fantasized abt
doing a love scene
w/ someone
and getting off
before anything
is actually
experienced?
Without a brim
we would just
stare in one
another’s eyes
all day long
“Better not to
fill it so,”
says Lao Tzu
Since
being a sage
keeps one from ever
singing the blues
Lao Tzu
never sung
the Underwhelmed Blues
or the Never Quite Enough Blues
or even the Insufficiently Distracted Blues
Walt Whitman
being a whore
and not a sage
was well aware
of his own brim
“O Christ! My fit has mastered me!”
He would have been
damned by sages
for refusing
to calculate
“What is less or more than a touch?”
The Ill-fitted
tend to be
lousy at math
Whitman had not reckoned
a brim any more
than he had reckoned 1000 acres
or the earth
“Logic and sermons never convince,
The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.”
So what that means
children
is hear not their sermons
you are the sermon
& you will never spill
any more
than you already have.
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