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Dear Santa,
by Kevin FehlenDr. Santa,
This year for Christmas, there is one thing I'd like above all else... authenticity.
I want authenticity... Not a new camera lens. (although, I wouldn't discourage it)
Not a new house (although, I'd much appreciate it)
Not even world peace (although, that'd be pretty sweet)
No, in reality, what I want is authenticity, within all that is...
I do not dislike the world of download now, i-app,
must have, buy buy buy buy, instant gratification
because it's inherently bad...
No. I dislike it because it does not feel authentic.
It does not feel real.
There is a plasticity, an oily falsness to it.
I do not like craft beer
Organically grown
Fair trade
Locally made
Because it is better for our
environment, economy, livelihood, society...
I like it because it can reach into the depth
of my soul, my being, my humanness
and feel clean, real, juicy, whole...
authentic.
I want the truth.
Good or bad.
I want it real.
I want it...
Authentic. 11/30/2013 Posted on 11/30/2013
Copyright © 2025 Kevin Fehlen
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 11/30/13 at 05:20 PM all wonderful questions you pose here and the request does not seem outlandish, after all, who doesn't want things real? yet if I were Santa I would say that authenticity like anything else in life or at the North Pole is what we make it, what we perceive it to be. I think authenticity falls under the heading of give and take. i.e. in order to receive authenticity, one must give authenticity, otherwise as Yeats writes in his poem, IN THE EVER WIDENING GYRE THE FALCON CANNOT HEAR THE FALCONER; THINGS FALL APART ; THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD ; MERE ANARCHY IS LOOSED UPON THE WORLD. If the world is not appearing to be real, it is owing I think to our willingness to be part and parcel to the inauthentic deal. the buck of inauthenticity stops when and where each of us says it does. how does one know something is fake, lest there is some semblance of authenticity in each of us, to measure, and weigh and rail against such things as would render us inauthentic. |
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