08-18-2011, 03:09 AM
beauty is whatever you think beauty is
a woman's breasts
a man's torso
flowers wedged in gray fences
the sun above a lonely bench
a sandwich laced with bacon grease
the love of a friend
the corpse of a whore
children playing in dark caves
a wine decanter almost full
the moon the wind the sodden earth
there are perhaps more perceptions
of what beauty is
than there are things
to be considered beautiful
a woman's breasts
a man's torso
flowers wedged in gray fences
the sun above a lonely bench
a sandwich laced with bacon grease
the love of a friend
the corpse of a whore
children playing in dark caves
a wine decanter almost full
the moon the wind the sodden earth
there are perhaps more perceptions
of what beauty is
than there are things
to be considered beautiful
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe