| operations |
| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"amazing",<br>"author":"wales",<br>"permlink":"appendices-of-a-briefcorn",<br>"title":"Appendices of a briefcorn",<br>"body":"I was thinking that if I was but a guest here and my time was brief,<br> what would my objective be that was the most important to fulfil...\n\n![dandelion-3212293_640.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmQrNvDgFgT8qS5xRcSVsL1k1uTkxyQAT73YK8LhsLE2du\/dandelion-3212293_640.jpg)\n\nIt\u2019s crazy fighting the machine with one hand while the other holds the instruction manual on how to do it.\nAnd now my fellow citizens I must give you a minor fifth alone falling into an arpeggio where the distant stars ignite and say: never give up until all has been exhausted and there is nothing left but a blip in its dimensions.\nIt\u2019s my trigger finger,<br> 1969 vintage that said this,<br> and stuck it on the fridge as a reminder.\nAnd then I thought: why am I trying to make something in and of this world,<br> it doesn\u2019t belong to me,<br> I\u2019m only a guest here,<br> and a fleeting one at that.\nYou can\u2019t elaborate on that can you,<br> asked the wind.\nNot without a smile on my face I replied.\n\n![feather-3010848_640.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmQXH4EcMLVTP621WQGoBTHvaZEbVuAJvhe3m4KD1fsURu\/feather-3010848_640.jpg)\n\nAnd another thing:\n In all this dust we arrive at,<br> longing with our thirst to be let in,<br> or out,<br> we become the doubt that asks for extra time to sort it out.\nWe call on so many things to be explored to find,<br> our soul,<br> our heart in what we are missing so much,<br> where we so long to be: that dance,<br> that flirt with the divine within us.\nJust one more thing,<br> I said,<br> and I\u2019ll believe in you for a thousand years,<br> and then some.\nYou have no bargaining power here,<br> little one.\nI am the apprentice to the sorcerer,<br> and have no use to bargain my existence away to such as you,<br> no matter who you are.\nA rebel,<br> are we?\nAnd yet,<br> I am nothing without you.\nAlways the romantic I see.\nCome down from there and I\u2019ll show you exactly what I mean.\nNow that\u2019s what I\u2019m afraid of.\nSo you think this is a pipe dream?\nI think nothing of the sort dear.\nEnough of the dear; give me ten million dollars,<br> now.\nI will do no such thing.\nSpoil-sport.\nBlink quickly now it's almost tea time.\n\n![teapots-1858601_640.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmXPEh61dSweB3SKXD6rnsg6odT1bBXNZK8GwdczhvFoQ4\/teapots-1858601_640.jpg)\n\nI sometimes think things,<br> too much for my own good,<br> you know.\nWould this be a satire kind of question?\nYes,<br> I think so.\nI think I may answer it then in that kind of way,<br> that you must be more kind to yourself and love yourself more,<br> and then,<br> next life you can be a king.\nI would not be a victim here,<br> but a survivor,<br> practicing staying alive,<br> and coming up for air every now and then to crank up the engines of the quickly machine to go back to sleep.\nOh,<br> quieten down,<br> you won\u2019t go black until after you\u2019ve gone blue.\nIs that a promise?\nIt sure is kid.\n\n![dreamcatcher-1082228_640.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmVC1nagUrVaeG8mndJ8ou5vciZ5UDKkPb9RFbdDP3azWe\/dreamcatcher-1082228_640.jpg)\n\nAh,<br> the American dream.\nNo,<br> it\u2019s not the American dream; it\u2019s Zazen,<br> I promise.\nWhen I opened the door of the fridge the next morning a frog jumped out and looked at me kind of strange,<br> as if to say: haven\u2019t we been here before,<br> just like this a thousand times already?\nI had no answers,<br> and so grabbed the milk for morning coffee.\n\nImages from Pixabay",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"amazing\",<br>\"philosophy\",<br>\"wisdom\",<br>\"voluntaryism\",<br>\"freedom\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmQrNvDgFgT8qS5xRcSVsL1k1uTkxyQAT73YK8LhsLE2du\/dandelion-3212293_640.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmQXH4EcMLVTP621WQGoBTHvaZEbVuAJvhe3m4KD1fsURu\/feather-3010848_640.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmXPEh61dSweB3SKXD6rnsg6odT1bBXNZK8GwdczhvFoQ4\/teapots-1858601_640.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmVC1nagUrVaeG8mndJ8ou5vciZ5UDKkPb9RFbdDP3azWe\/dreamcatcher-1082228_640.jpg\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " |
|