Part 2: A Damaged Brain Exposed

Part 2: A Damaged Brain Exposed

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O.W. Holmes: It is the province of knowledge
to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom
to listen.

Barbsdad: Well, maybe so ...

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All foregoing talkee-talkee énonciation
of mine in Part 1 assumes, of course,
an approximately perfect world where
a listener listens---

with honest hearing intended.

Paff!
An outrageously aughable lassumption.
A blankety-blank blinking pinball tilt.
Does not compute; it's theory.

A game.

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Wasn't it Shakespeare who iambic-
pentametered "let me borrow
your ears"? Or something like that?
                                                 ---barbsdad
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Listening can be pun to flay;
but for one motivated by the urge
of obligation to pretend, it can be
a bore, something tempting
attempted escape.

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It is the disease of not listening,
the malady of not marking, that I
am troubled with.
                                              ---Shakespeare
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Every listener, psudo or not, should
have at least one mental pireman's
fole

(and I think most of us do; we learned
it well at church and school)

to leap sideways onto and grab ahold
of while corkscrewing to rocky bottom,
and once there to busk unironed clothes
and hastily buit the quilding---

never wasting precious time inspecting
the mirror or combing hair or spreading
on antisperspirant or washragging face
or blowing nose or squeezing pimples.

Or clipping our nails.

(to be cont'd)