05-24-2021, 09:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-24-2021, 10:01 PM by RiverNotch.)
adding to knot's, it is the end that gets a little awkward. here's my suggestion:
I want to settle here, beside my herds
like some bored Noah,
meditating on the futility....
of something else. a je ne sais pas that would have to replace the business that you'd rightly move to the top. personally I like lists, so if you were to add more maybe bulk up that list too xD
> As zoos go, the Albuquerque Zoo is about as humane as it gets, but I can't say I ever enjoy seeing animals in captivity. I was willing to go strictly for the kids. But I did find comfort in those back lots where the animals did not seem so imprisoned.
As a kid, I loved zoos, but at some point -- really, college -- I learned to dislike them, to be uncomfortable in them. The kid in me still enjoys visiting especially well-maintained zoos, but---well, the unease is perhaps best encapsulated by that which we read in college, Eco's essay "Travels in Hyperreality". Give it a read.
The poem sorta echoes it, but then there's the allusion to Noah, which isn't in Eco but might as well have been. I see it as a reflection on the hubris of man, in this case over the ecological disaster we ourselves have hoist upon us -- an indictment, if you will, of the one thing about zoos Eco wasn't able to address, at least so far as I remember.
A good reflection, just to be clear xD
I want to settle here, beside my herds
like some bored Noah,
meditating on the futility....
of something else. a je ne sais pas that would have to replace the business that you'd rightly move to the top. personally I like lists, so if you were to add more maybe bulk up that list too xD
> As zoos go, the Albuquerque Zoo is about as humane as it gets, but I can't say I ever enjoy seeing animals in captivity. I was willing to go strictly for the kids. But I did find comfort in those back lots where the animals did not seem so imprisoned.
As a kid, I loved zoos, but at some point -- really, college -- I learned to dislike them, to be uncomfortable in them. The kid in me still enjoys visiting especially well-maintained zoos, but---well, the unease is perhaps best encapsulated by that which we read in college, Eco's essay "Travels in Hyperreality". Give it a read.
The poem sorta echoes it, but then there's the allusion to Noah, which isn't in Eco but might as well have been. I see it as a reflection on the hubris of man, in this case over the ecological disaster we ourselves have hoist upon us -- an indictment, if you will, of the one thing about zoos Eco wasn't able to address, at least so far as I remember.
A good reflection, just to be clear xD