it is written in the Olde Booke of Life
that when the Lion went unto the wild
to have its fill, when first it felt Hunger
the King of Beasts saw two creatures:
*a human, under a tree, reading a book;
and a human, under a tree, writing a book*
and the Lion ate the reader
for its inner voice told the King of Beasts:
*"Eat the reader - for that is digestible;
but partake not of the writer
for it is susceptible to cramps
and worse, may cause a block"*
And since then hath the Lion
lived in this wisdom:
Eat of the reader, never of the writer
Sep 27, 2014
Sep 27, 2014 at 1:56 AM UTC
it is written in the Olde Booke of Life
that when the Lion went unto the wild
to have its fill, when first it felt Hunger
the King of Beasts saw two creatures:
*a human, under a tree, reading a book;
and a human, under a tree, writing a book*
and the Lion ate the reader
for its inner voice told the King of Beasts:
*"Eat the reader - for that is digestible;
but partake not of the writer
for it is susceptible to cramps
and worse, may cause a block"*
And since then hath the Lion
lived in this wisdom:
Eat of the reader, never of the writer
based on a joke online - for those (and I don't mean to insult the intelligence of my readers) who need a little nudge to understand the references in the poem, think of "Reader's Digest", "writer's cramps" and "writer's block" ...and those of you who still don't get the chunk about "writer's block" - just recall last week when you had constipation...
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