Sep 2012
On the far corner of my hall hangs a giant poster. Janeway is leading
her crew through the unknown. Spruced up so nice, you could
mistake it for a wall. My cupboard of skeletons. Beware, uncover the secret
at your own risk! Sometimes though, I wonder why we don't just accept:
aren't we all about the mean? Good man. On average, I am. White crows,
do exist! Everyone knows but crows are black. Of course the extent counts.
Of deviance I mean. But trust, you must. I am a monkey that learned to
think. So are you. I learn my religion, I learn my culture. I learn to act:
my part in the Play. Life is a rule-bound game we choose to accept.
I rebel too. When the rules aren't fun no more. Isn't that true of me
as of you? Meantime, meanwhile, mean love. On the average lets seek:
her crew through the unknown. Spruced up so nice, you could
mistake it for a wall. My cupboard of skeletons. Beware, uncover the secret
at your own risk! Sometimes though, I wonder why we don't just accept:
aren't we all about the mean? Good man. On average, I am. White crows,
do exist! Everyone knows but crows are black. Of course the extent counts.
Of deviance I mean. But trust, you must. I am a monkey that learned to
think. So are you. I learn my religion, I learn my culture. I learn to act:
my part in the Play. Life is a rule-bound game we choose to accept.
I rebel too. When the rules aren't fun no more. Isn't that true of me
as of you? Meantime, meanwhile, mean love. On the average lets seek:
'Mean Time' is one of Britain's poet-laureate Carol Ann Duffy's excellent early anthologies: I had an idea for a different play on the title, presented here :)
Exceptions such as white crows are used in ancient Indian philosophical tracts to convey fallacies in reasoning.
Exceptions such as white crows are used in ancient Indian philosophical tracts to convey fallacies in reasoning.
(Quantum Dot)
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