Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 11:01:54 -0400
From: Stirling Newberry <allegro-AT-thecia.net>
Subject: Re: PLC: Song of Myself



>> Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the
>>     earth much?
>>  Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
>>  Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
>>
>>  Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of
>>     all poems,
>>  You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions
>>     of suns left,)
>>  You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look
>>     through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in
>>     books,
>>  You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
>>  You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
>>__________________________________
>>

Has any lived until they have looked?

Though divided from ones nature,
one must breath in moment undivided.
And live by seeing through no other lens,
not word from moldered text,
nor argument conceived from preconception,
nor circumstances hinged on birth,
this then, and no other,
learn of me but not from me.


Stirling Newberry
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