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February 3

Daily Wisdom


Daily Inspiration


Life of Significant Soil; Meaning of Life; Overcoming; Social Justice; Wisdom

Freelance Monkette

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"To live illusionless, in the abandoned mine-/ shaft of doubt, and still/ mime illusions for others? A puzzle/ for the maker who has thought/ once too often too coldly./ Since I was more than a child/ trying on a thousand faces/ I have wanted one thing: to know/ simply as I know my name/ at any given moment, where I stand./ How much expense of time and skill/ which might have set itself/ to angelic fabrications! All merely/ to chart one needle in the haymow?/ Find yourself and you find the world?/ Solemn presumption! Mighty Object/ no one but itself has missed,/ what's lost, if you stay lost? Someone/ ignorantly loves you - will that serve?/ Shrug that off, and presto! -/ the needle drowns in the haydust./ Think of the whole haystack -/ a composition so fortuitous/ it only looks monumental./ There's always a straw twitching somewhere./ Wait out the long chance, and/ your needle too could get nudged up/ to the apex of that bristling calm./ Rusted, possibly. You might not want/to swear it was the Object, after all./ Time wears us old utopians./ I no longer think/ 'truth' is the most beautiful of words./ Today, when I see 'truthful'/ written somewhere, it flares/ like a white orchid in wet woods,/ rare and grief-delighting, up from the page./ Sometimes, unwittingly even,/ we have been truthful./ In a random universe, what more/ exact and starry consolation?/ Don't think I think/ facts serve better than ignorant love./ Both serve, and still/ our need mocks our gear."

                                            Adrienne Rich

                                            “Double Monologue"



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