09-22-2012, 10:52 AM
I'm not a fly or a homosexual or a Catholic. And I admit I wrote the second poem months before the first one, and that I didn't utilize the exercise as I'm about to describe it in the specific case of either of these two. But I like an exercise where you take an hour one day to take a solitary walk or watch tv trying your best to view and experience everything as a prejudiced Catholic, then an hour the next day as homosexual or anything else that you don't normally identify with. It's much easier to merge a Catholic with a homosexual point of view than a man and a fly's experience. But on the third day, you can try to become a fly in your mind for an hour, to the best of your ability. On the fourth day, become all three at once. Then ask yourself what if any purpose it may have served. I like things like that.