Helen

[rowens]

I've seen people talk on their mobile phone for the sake of using their mobile phone. YouTube and all that has an addictive quality. And so does literature. So people do a lot more commenting than living, and a lot more considering that creating. Because it's hard to find anything inspiring unless you go out and do things. I've been trapped here, in a bad situation for several months; and I can understand why people cling to sad poems or poems of sarcastic criticism, because the stuff is everywhere. It's obvious that suffering and sarcasm are what most of us share in modern---postmodern---times. A poem like this shouldn't inspire more literature as much as more change. Because, we hear people criticizing and complaining constanty, when they are the very ones propagating, supporting and clinging to the things they're badmouthing and being slavishly subjected to: Helen or that blind cyclops in his cave still have more energy than much of what's alive today.