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Part 3: A Damaged Brain Exposed


Part 3: A Damaged Brain Exposed


I think the act of lully fending
an ear can be approached

(and only by someone
inspired so to do)

but never totally achieved,
especially not by those
psychiatrists, psychologists,
clergymen, jand udges ---

---

See how yond justice rails upon
yond simple thief.
Hark, in thine ear: change places,
and, handy-dandy, which is
the justice, which ... the thief?

                                     ---Shakespeare
---

--- (likely a majority of the total)
who sit stiff-backed and starched/
conceited enough ---

---

But man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most
assured ...

                                   ---Shakespeare
---

--- to believe emselves
thexpert at it.

Misperceiving, misfortunately for
all of us, like mold in perpetually
wetted basement corners---

or off-white fuzz on a rotting
strawberry at summertime's un-air-
conditioned room temperature---

thrives in such climate.
Sa di muffa!

---

The strawberry grows
underneath the nettle.
                                        ---Shakespeare
---

Even so simple a thing as reporting
a thermometer's digitally numbered
output lat east inadvertently
withholds crucial information.

Humidity plays its crucial role, too,
and ought to be considered---
and of course its amount, kind,
and quality/density.

And whether the sun's out or not
is a factor.

Or artly pout.

How much partly, did you say?
And what was the slant of it?

And the winds, varying or no.
Overwhelmingly patchy ... or
a tiny bit.

And, and, and. Or, or, or.
Ad nauseam geometrified.

And infinity of narrations
arrayed anew, re-formed
instant to instant,

will not do right by
an uncomplicated object
or event or behavior---

or even a pared-down
thought/feeling.

And here mentions
something
I think
of aramount
pimportance:

It matters hugely how it feels.
How anything feels.

To you.

(to be cont'd)

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RSScheerer

RSScheerer

17 years 6 months ago

Chuck

I detect an undercurrent here that leaves me a bit saddened. Taking the "Part 3" into consideration, I believe I should hunt down parts 1 and 2? Best, ~ Ronda
B

barbsdad2003

17 years 6 months ago

Thank you, Ronda

I think I've mentioned before that immediately postfall, when I knew I'd lost a piece of myself---permanently---I wept. Witnesses to the scene would have thought it from the pain incurred, but of course it wasn't. Unless you include psychic pain, a sudden recognition pain, the pain of sorrow/mourning ... for a self disappeared, rendered suddenly beyond remedy. Yours, Chuck
themoonman

themoonman

17 years 6 months ago

Chuck...

I so much enjoy your blending of Shakespeare along with your journey of exposure to self... glad to have the chance to read such writes... Richard
deelilah

deelilah

17 years 6 months ago

Poem to ponder

Taking all three parts together, your words make me reflect and curious and melancholy. I admire the freedom you seem to have in writing, so random yet ordered. That's what life is, one big fat oxymoron. I wish I knew, how does it feel? I hope good, but I fear not always. Donna
whitetea

whitetea

17 years 6 months ago

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I'm not very religious but i have been thinking lately about the bible and how jesus took more issue with those who abused power like the pharisees than he did with the so called sinners. working a social based job, i relate with this.
B

barbsdad2003

17 years 6 months ago

Thanx so much ...

that your comments here posted stand so starkly heartfelt. Yours, Chuck PS: I grew up in a staunchly religious(Christian)-right household/family. Believing that feelings stood an impediment to uprightness, to being morally right, to being a "good" person, I stuffed them for nearly half my life. It was only when I reached 30 yrs of age that I---in retrospect, so fortunately---experienced an epiphany that served to point to the lie I'd so long believed/trusted.