Feelings.
#1
These days
and as always
people
are telling people
how they feel
they are sharing their feelings
and their ideas
now and again
and here and there
with someone or other in the body
about things
and the essence and the substance
of their feelings
and their ideas
that is to say
the feelings and the ideas
about things
that they share
with people
is namely and properly
their feelings and their ideas
about themselves and
about people and things
people then
inevitably and invariably
have feelings
and ideas
about themselves
and about people and things
those things being
the things that people do
and the things that people
do not do
and the things that people feel
and the things that people do not feel
and the thoughts that people have
and the thoughts that people
do not have
these feelings and ideas
that people have
and that they do not have
and the things
that people do
and do not do
and peoples ideas
and notions
about such things
are things
that people
are interested in
and concerned about
and they are things that people
pay attention to and require
they pay attention
to these things
more or less
avidly or dispassionately
yes
they attend to these matters
conscientiously at times
and especially when
such matters are judged assessed and felt to be
pertinent to and
immediately concerned with the
gratification or the denial
of the basic human drives
and they attend to such matters
more or less
neglectfully at other times
especially and usually
where the gratification or the denial
of the basic human drives
is not understood or felt to be
immediately at issue in the matters
at hand
thus
the different things that
different people do
and do not do
and their motivating compelling
and actuating
emotions ideas and notions
are more or less notable and impressive
to people
and categorizing and identifying these matters
and ascribing
relative
absolute
and categorical
meaning and value
to these things
in some definite relation to a theoretically or a practically
obtained estimate in regard
of and to
any existing notion of
potential for
the gratification or the denial of the basic human drives
is ongoing and continual
in people
and these things
are subject to some periodic revision
reappraisal
and reassessment
in the mind of a body
such that they might be promoted
to a significance
or absolved of any putative or palpably perceived value
therein
feelings
human feelings
are emotions
and emotions are feelings
feelings
are movements and intentions
of being heart and mind actuated governed impelled
by and originating in
needs
desires
and
fears
personal phenomenal
needs desires and fears
are necessarily out-coming from
and as consequence of
the existence of the potential and the possibility
of and for the gratification or the denial of
the basic human drives.
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#2
I appericate the cadance of the repeating words, like people and basic human drives. By not knowing who the narrarator is, the scope of who could be tell the story, adding a sea of depth. One critique I have, is that the poem feels drawn out in place it doesn't need to be, for example using an entire line to highlight the words "and" or "therein".
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