Oh no Ken,
I liked it, and there is a certain truth in it, you were maybe not
describing your mother, but it makes sense I think with several periods of
our lives, or some intuitions we have to go through.
Anny Ballardini
http://www.fieralingue.it/poetcorner/index.php
Android, loving beggar, dive to the poor
(from Mantis)
Louis Zukofsky
From: "Ken Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reading it over, this is absolute shite (as it's spelled in the UK).
Ignore.
>
> ken
>
> Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>
> > Having said what I just did...very much a start and nothing more.
> >
> > Being. Nothingness. Family Matters.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > My mother professed atheism but believed
> > that the God in whom she did not believe
> > existed strictly to torture her.
> >
> > She may have been right: it may
> > be true that God gives us not what we want
> > but what we need.
> >
> > Or put another way: Be careful
> > what you wish for. If
> > you need torture to ask for help,
> > you shall have it.
> >
> > She did not ask. She endured,
> > demanding, never asking.
> > She met her death proud,
> > vainglorious, and scared to death.
> >
> > KTW/10-22-03
> >
> > -------------------------
> > Kenneth
> > Wolman http://www.kenwolman.com
> > http://kenwolman.blogspot.com
> > "Sometimes the veil between human intelligence and animal intelligence
> > wears very thin--then one experiences the supreme thrill of keeping a
cat,
> > or perhaps allowing oneself to be owned by a cat."--Catherine Manley
>
> --
> Kenneth Wolman
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