P, you always remind me that there's more to the world than I thought! :)
Thanks! Sheila
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Patrick McManus <
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> S is there a bit of Kafka here? :-)P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Sheila Murphy
> Sent: 19 February 2014 03:50
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> Subject: Prerequisites
>
> Something like birth
> order, although not
> quite. Something you
> do not control,
>
> something recognized outside
> yourself: either you
> qualify or are dis-
> qualified.
>
> You don't have to
> do something, do
> anything. It won't change.
> You will have read the signals,
>
> interpreted each,
> and played through
> hoops and other obstacles,
> as though they count.
>
> You will be wrong.
> Years later, you will meet
> your arbiter, who will recite
> examples of who (else)
>
> has failed, and on that list
> will be some facet of yourself,
> that simply flunked
> the test you did not make,
>
> the test you did not take,
> that same test that continues
> through eternity, the difference
> between real and fake.
>
> Sheila E. Murphy
>
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