Wasteful Business

Wasteful Business

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To what purpose
[I]s this waste?

---Matthew 26:8

I don't know.

---barbsdad
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Sorry.
I must go.

I left
The TV

On.

I want to
Waste it

While I
Watch it---

Not the
While I'm

Gone.

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Comments

leonard daranjo

17 years 10 months ago

Brevity hits like a thunder bolt

I like this piece - short, sweet and shorn of all the frills. Leonard

barbsdad2003

17 years 10 months ago

Thanx

This morning I came across this quote just below. Seems appropriate in part to explain the brevity of this piece ... and quite a few others I've written using few words. [S]edentary weavers of long tales Give me ... fidgets, and my patience fails. ---Cowper Yours, Chuck

infinite_dwarf

17 years 10 months ago

chuck

I don't know, Chuck, something's missing from this, and I can't quite put my finger on it. It just doesn't capture me like your works normally do. Maybe it's just my frame of mind. ~Jess K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~ "Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer!" ~ "Your inferiority complex is better than mine!"

barbsdad2003

17 years 10 months ago

Sorry to disappoint

Since the piece as written casts a blanket over (and even beyond) such a multitude of subjects both broad and specific, I can't imagine adding anything to it without its suffering a net subtraction. Among other things, it touches on religion, mindlessness, addiction, habit, unawareness, insensitivity, lame apology, lame leave-taking, loss of neighborly community, philosophy, a self-ignorance, self-indulgence, irresponsibility (shirking of responsibility for self and others), humor, self-ridicule .... The list grows too long. I'll quit now. (I'm sure that with some thought you can spy some other subjects dealt with ... some with apparentness and others with a gentle (and wry) subtlety.) Thanx, Chuck