Sunday, December 13, 2009

Munching Sweets



    From the Towers

    by Heather McHugh

    Insanity is not a want of reason.
    It is reason's overgrowth, a calculating kudzu.

    Explaining why, in two-ton manifesti, thinkers sally forth
    with testaments and pipe bombs. Heaven help us:

    spare us all your meaningful designs. Shine down or
    shower forth, but (for the earthling's sake) ignore
    all prayers followed by against, or for. Teach us to bear

    life's senselessness, our insignificance, and more;
    let's call that sanity. The terrifying prospect isn't some
    escapist with a novel, fond of comfort, munching sweets—

    it is the busy hermeneut, so serious he's sour, intent on making
    meaning of us all, and bursting from the towers to the streets.


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