Thanks, Lawrence, a poem which got me thinking - that's a good thing (I've
been lazy recently!).
Andrew
On 29 January 2015 at 18:32, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 'danked' as in unpleasantly moistened, I take it, L. Like it. Reminds me,
> the poem I mean, of something my wife said to me this morning, dismissing
> those who would claim that suffering in humans ennobles. If their God
> exists, would He say that it is good for animals? Or if, she went on, if He
> is omnipotent, why so design humans? Could have come up with a better model.
>
> B
>
>
> > On 28 Jan 2015, at 11:58 pm, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I said once, to myself
> >
> > or perhaps to my lover,
> >
> > that being close to animals
> >
> > will make us more human:
> >
> >
> >
> > she sneered at me
> >
> > for speaking to a donkey - conversationally -
> >
> > on our way to eat,
> >
> > my hands danked by donkey tongue...
> >
> >
> >
> > it is two way, not magic -
> >
> > a rabbit's foot does nothing
> >
> > but lames the rabbit --
> >
> >
> >
> > seek out animals
> >
> > like one who lost them --
> >
> > non-speakers
> >
>
--
Andrew
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'Undercover of Lightness'
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'Shikibu Shuffle'
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