Here's a little jigsaw puzzle with all our little thoughts
Maybe there is an order that makes sense,
only I don't think anyone knows it, for sure not me
1. It's easy to say, 'Everything is really a matter of x,' or 'Everything really boils down to y,' because I think it is fun making one size fits all patterns. Some people claim that every book, movie, or play is only one of seven stories, or others are still more cynical and say it is only one. So it's easy to make things simple when really there are a lot of diversions, only here is one pattern that I have always felt
a problem is a lack of a resource
you either don't have it at all, or you're a few cents short. Could be physical, which is land, food, capital, and everything about money is in that section also. Or, it could be less physical, The brains, Time, beauty, competence, experience (I am sure some people could raise their hands & say that abstract qualities are really physical too). Well. Did you ever have a problem? Or did you have one today? late? sick? disappointed, empty handed, well I think it is all resources
a problem is a lack of a resource this is a place where resources are hard to get
2. There's some joke, I bet you already heard it. I think there are variations, only . . .
'To Be Is To Do' - Socrates
'To Do Is To Be' - Jean-Paul Sartre
'Do Be Do Be Do' - Frank Sinatra
only reason I wrote that was so I could give you Mine;
'To Have Is To Be' . . . That is what I think . . .
3. You.
a wise, wonderful person, & you are very much older than I am. Do you remember what you said? I do not think you would, I think sometimes I am the garbage disposal for Comments because I chew them while everyone else forgets. It is funny what you said. It is a cruel, biased irony, a truth in your mind but a lie to everyone else's. Do you know what? Do you know what the pattern is? All the so called Old People say the same thing, look at me, look at me and look at someone else, look at me again, say something they think is very true, say something that they don't really understand because our generation has lost it. If you comment on a younger generation you are likely to miss their idioms, likely to get a some eyebrows when you tell a kid what is fashionable. Do you know what else this means? It means your comment, what would be so valued, what I would treasure so very dearly if someone my Age had said it, got eaten up & carried away by a wind, and I am sure the person next to me scoffed a little on the inside. Are you really wiser than we are? can you see things that we cannot see? on that kind of cold Tuesday, I would have begged the answer to be yes.
4. When it comes to Nations & their rules & policies,
I guess I've had a dream for a kind of long time, A picture, an image about a perfect America, my idea of the best possible country. I guess I like those idyllic Middle grounds, those pits in the middle of the horseshoe. What if America could be nice, Nicer, compassionate, understanding, the kind of country that had a loving society? and yet, what if for all its being nice, America could know what it was? know what was wrong with certain things, and know good & evil without being a condemner? What if America could put its foot down & say 'That is wrong and we know what is right,' without mistreating & despising the kind of person who fouled it up? Isn't it a nice middle ground?
I don't care so much about that stuff though,
the real question is, couldn't I be that way too?
I know now what it means to be nice at all costs
you are the trampled and exhausted and unsexy and undefined and unreasonable purple stain on a wall
why did this dichotomy have to exist
5. I have heard so many nice things lately. A hoard of comments that are worth a lot of thankfulness. It is so strange that I am such an analyser, a Disposal and a chewer, a garden for all your little words. I'm willing to bend them, willing to start wondering and changing all the compliments into dismissals, thinking about hidden meanings & contexts & subtexts & changing a lot of nice sentences into a smartly veiled insult. Only I will not, I will try & I will smile. I am so glad that I have heard these things, That I have heard anything. I love this and I enjoy this and believe me when I say I love all of these people, I can easily run off the road and start loving everything and I really love you too
you are so much fun
this is so nice
I can't even stand how nice it is
and I hope your day is so wonderful
so wonderful that your socks are blown off
and then change colors
Bye Bye~
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