- an improv, oct. 01 -


My friend Jon once said
that illumination was unto
insight, knowledge, and learning.

(I say they're all the same, only
with a bigger splash in
unschooled eyes.)

He went on to say that
the particular gift was the equal
to a bagel on a freeway
the hole being what we
as humans think we don't know
the thing of wonder itself being
what we think we do.

I went on to ask
what the rest of the asphalt
road-kill would symbolize.
Answered, simply, "The rest is what we don't
know as well, but the catch is that
we also don't know we don't know."

I looked to him with gleeful, demanding eyes;
words of fleeing inspiration
lingering dangerously on a silvered tongue.

11/25/2001

Posted on 11/25/2001
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