01-25-2014, 12:16 AM
Intellect is as poisonous as ignorance,
with experience imbalanced
by what accelerates the mind at the expense of the body,
an endless tapeworm coiling in your skull.
It pays to be dumbed down sometimes,
to walk through a field not knowing the hows and whys
by the time you reach the trees.
Not thinking . . .
maybe you'll stumble over some kind of epiphany if you know the names
of everything, and think of all connections,
symbolic and scientific.
When you stop, not from thinking,
but to wonder
whether or whether not:
The late afternoon wind blows,
arousing your mental compass
toward memories,
regrets, ungraspable associations,
hopes and things like that.
How it seems later in the forest,
maybe a little colder.
It could start pouring down raining
and the ground would barely even get wet.
Things like that,
your intimate thoughts left to fatten
under the luxury of uninterrupted consideration.
Seeing the world through having shoes on,
walking back, shivering,
through a field tilled with manure,
without having to stop and think.
with experience imbalanced
by what accelerates the mind at the expense of the body,
an endless tapeworm coiling in your skull.
It pays to be dumbed down sometimes,
to walk through a field not knowing the hows and whys
by the time you reach the trees.
Not thinking . . .
maybe you'll stumble over some kind of epiphany if you know the names
of everything, and think of all connections,
symbolic and scientific.
When you stop, not from thinking,
but to wonder
whether or whether not:
The late afternoon wind blows,
arousing your mental compass
toward memories,
regrets, ungraspable associations,
hopes and things like that.
How it seems later in the forest,
maybe a little colder.
It could start pouring down raining
and the ground would barely even get wet.
Things like that,
your intimate thoughts left to fatten
under the luxury of uninterrupted consideration.
Seeing the world through having shoes on,
walking back, shivering,
through a field tilled with manure,
without having to stop and think.
