CITY BEAUTIFUL
I think that the world on earth would be a lot happier if all the men looked like Jesus. And all the women looked like Jesus without a beard. And the ocean looked like God,
and the sky looked like the Devil, and you looked like my wife.
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SATURDAY
We have biscuits every morning when Harry comes by with his biscuit truck except those days when Harry says I just don’t feel like bringing biscuits today in my truck and then you can sit outside and wait for the sound of the truck and the smell of fresh biscuits and Harry but I am warning you that you will be waiting until tomorrow if all you are sitting outside waiting for is biscuits from a truck that belongs to Harry and not waiting for something else like true love unless you are waiting for Harry’s true love and then you will still be waiting until tomorrow at least and maybe even longer, like Saturday, and even then, Harry might not be in the mood for true love he might be in the mood for bringing by biscuits in his truck then again Saturday might be like today and Harry might not.
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COMMOTION
David once said that people think “motion” is a noun, but a noun is an object, and how can you objectify motion? You cannot draw it, or touch it, or hold it, or make it into something else. You cannot put it into a box nor can you embrace it or slap it in the face. You cannot put a hat on it or have sex with it. Motion is neither created nor destroyed. Motion is, or not. How can we possibly understand this noun, this beautiful noun, for a noun is what is is. Let us all, David said, stop moving. Let us cease. We saw his point, we thought it grand, but we did not. But David did, and we, still, we did not.
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EXTRA CREDIT
Whenever I am given a piano with extra notes on it, I don’t play them. I like to keep them in savings, like you would save money in a bank, in case things ever get really desperate. It’s a form of security. These ‘saving’ notes, which are really low and super high, are there just in case things aren’t going well with all the other notes. And if things don’t go well with the other notes, I will play really low notes and super high notes and leave out everything in the middle. These middle notes I will save for when things go back to being medium, or average.
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TREES
They stood right next to each other. One had red leaves, one had yellow leaves, and one had green leaves. They were very tall. When the wind began to blow, they said Yes sir and decided to sway at the same time. When the wind stopped, they said OK then and they stopped, too. When a few leaves fell, they said Uh-oh, here we go. As it began to grow dark they said, That’s fine, that’s fine. When I decided to leave they said, Come again, won’t you?
I think that the world on earth would be a lot happier if all the men looked like Jesus. And all the women looked like Jesus without a beard. And the ocean looked like God,
and the sky looked like the Devil, and you looked like my wife.
**
SATURDAY
We have biscuits every morning when Harry comes by with his biscuit truck except those days when Harry says I just don’t feel like bringing biscuits today in my truck and then you can sit outside and wait for the sound of the truck and the smell of fresh biscuits and Harry but I am warning you that you will be waiting until tomorrow if all you are sitting outside waiting for is biscuits from a truck that belongs to Harry and not waiting for something else like true love unless you are waiting for Harry’s true love and then you will still be waiting until tomorrow at least and maybe even longer, like Saturday, and even then, Harry might not be in the mood for true love he might be in the mood for bringing by biscuits in his truck then again Saturday might be like today and Harry might not.
**
COMMOTION
David once said that people think “motion” is a noun, but a noun is an object, and how can you objectify motion? You cannot draw it, or touch it, or hold it, or make it into something else. You cannot put it into a box nor can you embrace it or slap it in the face. You cannot put a hat on it or have sex with it. Motion is neither created nor destroyed. Motion is, or not. How can we possibly understand this noun, this beautiful noun, for a noun is what is is. Let us all, David said, stop moving. Let us cease. We saw his point, we thought it grand, but we did not. But David did, and we, still, we did not.
**
EXTRA CREDIT
Whenever I am given a piano with extra notes on it, I don’t play them. I like to keep them in savings, like you would save money in a bank, in case things ever get really desperate. It’s a form of security. These ‘saving’ notes, which are really low and super high, are there just in case things aren’t going well with all the other notes. And if things don’t go well with the other notes, I will play really low notes and super high notes and leave out everything in the middle. These middle notes I will save for when things go back to being medium, or average.
**
TREES
They stood right next to each other. One had red leaves, one had yellow leaves, and one had green leaves. They were very tall. When the wind began to blow, they said Yes sir and decided to sway at the same time. When the wind stopped, they said OK then and they stopped, too. When a few leaves fell, they said Uh-oh, here we go. As it began to grow dark they said, That’s fine, that’s fine. When I decided to leave they said, Come again, won’t you?