Thanks for all your kind comments on this one. Sorry about the formatting
problem - I don't know what happened there.I've put the correct linebreaks
below.
I hesitated before posting this online, as I felt it could be seen as
over-sentimental - dog, death, and even a dolphin, a New Age icon, it seems.
I've heard several people express the opinion : dolphins, dolphins.
dolphins - I'm sick of ****ing dolphins. LOL.
Kind regards,
grasshopper
Listening to the Dog
My dog is teaching me to die. He explains that humans
think too much, confuse thinking with wisdom. Each moment,
he says, is a world that time cannot touch. I had forgotten.
His course begins with learning how to gather up flesh,
with feeling the brain open like a flower, the taking in of breath
hard, until it burns the lungs. Lungs will not be needed.
I will seize his shaggy throat and he will pull me through the elements
as the dolphin drew Arion up through the eye she had made
in the skin of the sea. Eyes will not be needed. Vision will become
being. Beyond there will be grass greener than the smell of rain
and no sadness. I believe him. We carry our feeding bowls out
into the garden and fill them with sun. Bowls will not be needed.
----- Original Message -----
From: calaya
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [THE-WORKS] New sub:Listening to the Dog
grassy, i think this is amazing. After the first read, it haunted me,so I
carried a copy of it in my pocket yesterday and read it again & again.
I wouldn't change a word.
thanks for it,
calaya
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