"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
--G.K. Chesterton
"The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred.../Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well-off, just as much as you."
--Walt Whitman
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According to the Buddha, right speech is a statement that is timely, true, kind, helpful (connected to liberation), and spoken with a mind of good-will. Let us all try to observe this precept.
This poem by Kelly Cherry from The Cortland Review somehow spoke to me today:
She Doesn't Care What you Say About Her, Just so Long as you Spell Her Name Right
Would she have fame? Would she take tea and have fame with her tea? Or roll a joint, famously?
She imagined approval, applause A man not bored by her voracity.
In the house to be Furnished in the future, There would be intricate, quiet rugs, Acres of books, Someone playing the cello.
A late supper after the concert or play... Outside, the people were clamoring for autographs.
The Madonna Syndrome:
Later, they went home, And the man who was not bored By the fact that she loved him Allowed her to write her name On his balls with the tip Of her tongue as many times As it took to make sure He got it right. In other news, those whose interest was piqued by my review of The Case Against Happiness should check out this even better review at the poetry blog The Great American Pinup, and this interview with Pecqueur at the blog every other day.