Totalitarianism's
idolatrous course can only be arrested by coming up against a
genuinely spiritual way of life. He
assumes power as a mask. To assume is not to know, but to trust that
one might. I assume the weather will remain cold but that
assumption is mine, not the weather's. He presumes to govern it,
too, in
the guise of markets and consumer spending, a strange weather that
clings like fog to things. The red wheelbarrow at Ace Hardware
in Kea'au can be had for
$43.66.
If I buy it, will I better understand the poem that named
it? If I sell my name, will
it mean more to me? My
student was surprised
I asked
him to define “happiness.” It's a given, but
everything here
is sold. We're
indebted to happiness; we give it everything we have. “I
was shocked at the pain I saw in peoples' faces in Ohio.”
Where is the aisle, or isle, that holds it close, like a “laying
deer” (at 50% off) or the
tuition we'll never pay? The spirit asks only for minimum wage, but
in Cleveland you're not even
allowed to vote on that.
--30
December 2016
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