Someone encouraged me
to vote for Biblical principles
in a recent election. I didn't
see any on the ballot.
Well, now, there was
this one thing about supporting
a bond to maintain bus-routes
in this city. I know how
working people have the Devil's
own time getting to and from
work, shops, family, and clinics.
Although Jesus Christ
never rode a bus, only
a donkey, I still figured
voting to pay to keep up
the bus-routes wasn't
anti-Biblical. Right?
The measure failed.
Copyright 2012 Hans Ostrom
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Monday, November 12, 2012
Today I Am Sure
Today I am sure
most of the poetry
written by William Blake
is unnecessarily complicated
and more or less
a pain in the ass.
Today I am sure
that life is the art
of delaying what is
inevitable and
accelerating
what is recalcitrant.
Today I am sure
that greed
is a disorder,
an addiction that blinds
the sufferer
and corrodes society.
Copyright 2012 Hans Ostrom
most of the poetry
written by William Blake
is unnecessarily complicated
and more or less
a pain in the ass.
Today I am sure
that life is the art
of delaying what is
inevitable and
accelerating
what is recalcitrant.
Today I am sure
that greed
is a disorder,
an addiction that blinds
the sufferer
and corrodes society.
Copyright 2012 Hans Ostrom
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Friday, November 9, 2012
Refuse to Race
Whatever happened to what happened?
I knew Chronos was quick, but now it seems
to have vroomed some more velocity.
Even the young with hard thighs, smart
lies, brassy brains, and big chests
seem prematurely nostalgic.
If you're always trying to catch up,
for God's sake and yours, stop.
Settle down in being
behind and let the future go
fuck itself--because it's going to
anyway. This thing's a race
only if you agree to run.
Copyright 2012 Hans Ostrom
I knew Chronos was quick, but now it seems
to have vroomed some more velocity.
Even the young with hard thighs, smart
lies, brassy brains, and big chests
seem prematurely nostalgic.
If you're always trying to catch up,
for God's sake and yours, stop.
Settle down in being
behind and let the future go
fuck itself--because it's going to
anyway. This thing's a race
only if you agree to run.
Copyright 2012 Hans Ostrom
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Teaching
You may lead a horse to water. The horse
may not be thirsty. Or the intuitive animal
might smell something wrong about the
water--or be spooked off it for another
reason. The horse may also have no
particular cause to trust you. If the
horse doesn't drink this time, it may
drink later, and it will probably remember
where this trough or pond or creek is.
So don't be in a rush to give up,
declare failure (the horse's), and
congratulate yourself for doing
all you could. Try a different way.
Look for different water. And anyway,
people aren't horses, so there's that.
Hans Ostrom, 2012
may not be thirsty. Or the intuitive animal
might smell something wrong about the
water--or be spooked off it for another
reason. The horse may also have no
particular cause to trust you. If the
horse doesn't drink this time, it may
drink later, and it will probably remember
where this trough or pond or creek is.
So don't be in a rush to give up,
declare failure (the horse's), and
congratulate yourself for doing
all you could. Try a different way.
Look for different water. And anyway,
people aren't horses, so there's that.
Hans Ostrom, 2012
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