parable (2)
November 26, 2016 at 4:12 pm Leave a comment
parable (2)
in the country of the blind, i’ve been told, the one-
eyed man is king.
but to be sane in the madmen’s cities?–
it is suicide.
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This of course has nothing to do with current conditions.
I am also not at all disturbed by current conditions.
–Or right now I’m waiting before saying anything true on the subject, as much as I can restrain myself. I can say “I told you so”. I wish, I so wish I hadn’t been right. This poem was written in 1973 aboard the USS Oklahoma City, CLG-5, ComSeventhFlt. I’d thrown overboard my notebook (that was in the form used for ships’ logbooks) after having been told by someone in the compartment that I had an unbelievably big audience.
Entry filed under: misguided humor, poetry, social psychology, voices. Tags: poetry from voices.
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