Armed and Dangerous has posted one of the better e…
Armed and Dangerous has posted one of the better essays I’ve read on the importance of courage.
Armed and Dangerous has posted one of the better essays I’ve read on the importance of courage.
Again with the poetry – I do love Bukowski:
Air and Light and Time and Space by Charles Bukowski
“You know, I’ve either had a family, a job
something has always been in the
way
but now
I’ve sold my house, I’ve found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light
for the first time in my life I’m going to have
a place and the time to
create.”
No, baby, if you’re going to create
you’re going to create whether you work
16 hours a day in a coal mine
or
you’re going to create in a small room
with 3 children while you’re on
welfare
you’re going to create with part of your mind and
your
body blown
away,
you’re going to create blind,
crippled,
demented,
you’re going to create with a cat crawling up your
back while
the whole city trembles in an earthquake
bombardment
flood or fire.
baby, air and light and time and space
have nothing to do with it
and don’t create anything
except maybe a longer life to find
new excuses
for.
And another one from the same site that I’ll just give to you here:
Afternoon of a Biblioparadisiac by David Mitchell
Melted to incandescence by
The aroma of fresh ink,
Yielding stiffness
Of fine paper,
Elegant lines of the font
Of eternal renewal:
We are bound by language
As by other tyrants,
Although the torture
Remains far sweeter, even
In memory.