36 Views of SF: 5. America strikes a pose
June 19, 2018
Our screenface Buddha’s are
little TED talks:
How to stand –
Make your bed every day –
How to dry your hands.
No one asks
why we’re slouching
why we don’t feel like
making our beds
why we’re always
washing our hands.
There’s something dirty about us –
about this place –
secrets we’ve pushed aside.
They haunt us in our dreams.
We count sheep
and lie.
We slouch unclean.
My mother says it looks
like an elephant slept in my bed.
She’s right, as always.
America’s all about answers.
But there are none.
Who makes a TED talk on
the proper way to
gnash your teeth?
Maybe that just comes
natural
in America.
That, and
lectures on
grit.
Blog Pairing: Grit: Is It Baloney?
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