: EVERY MOMENT IS LOVELY, YES :

drunk dial from a man with thr3e dau6hte9s

¿ and what could be more honest than that ?

she fell and

he

laughed



and I guess I am supposed to say something better than good

"good" is not

good ¿ "something" is

not so great either but can we

let that one go ?

good



there is nothing to see here move along

these lines ¿ where is the torque

that twists bubbling

innards and makes the thumping behind

glittering bones rush

white water or raises 

corners of lips to cheeks ? and what

if the velocity of these letters

was like singing or vibrations that shook

bodies down to the cells of cells

made

each one flicker like a light about to die and that might

feel even better when counting

breaths knowing that just

thinking about

this is a waste of them because they are only so

many left to take in this dream

¿ so can I hold

you ?

¿ defile

you with a hug ?

!

¿ think of one word that would make this poetry ?

¿ and not dare make this line

rhyme ? so I want to just

tell you that there is nothing to do everything

is disastrously fine without

it oka

y



¿ and what could be more selfish than that ?

loving another person


feels


so


good


that that

is the only

reason anyone does it


~O~

10 x like a billion = how much I love you:

Chick said...

Hedonism (feels good).

~otto~ said...

Ah, Chick, yes ... love as hedonism, yes. Yes.

TC said...

¿ and what could be more selfish than that ?


loving another person



feels



so



good



that that


is the only


reason anyone does it

__



To my (limited) mind there is nothing more poetic than an inarguable truth put clearly and directly as a proposition, so that everyone can understand it and thenceforth see a certain word or words in an entirely new way forever.

For example, "selfish".



(And then again: "smsedler".)



On the other hand (yet): some nights ago I heard a man (older, Black) and a woman (Latin, younger) engage in an interesting discussion about love, in which the former person expressed a view consistent with this poem, while the latter suggested, with equal forcefulness, that no, the "selfish" argument is a typical man's position, whereas women (she meant herself) often fall in love because they feel they can make someone else happy.

But maybe in that case making someone else happy would also be considered selfish, because it feels... so... good?

ana c. said...

thank youuuuuuuuu
"concal"

rollerfink said...

ficurn!

i hope you don't die.

whoops i put the exclamation point in ficurn!

now they gave me a new one and it is about 150% more appropriate: feinduck (no exclamation point)

~otto~ said...

Tom, thanks for the illumination, as always.

~otto~ said...

Ana, No no no no no THANK YOU. (I'm going to just keep doing that until I win.)

~otto~ said...

rollerfink, I will die, I'm afraid. But giant Eddie Murphy heads live forever.

gamefaced said...

hi. coming back for more. and more. this is excellent.

sackec

~otto~ said...

gamefaced,

You rock socks off. Thanks. I kiss your face in a friendly way :-*

~O~

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