#consumersociety
How small am I willing
to live, in a small circle
with small wishes
in small style, with
a small mouth and
a small stomach?
Not wanting to experience
everything, not wanting to know
everything, just quickly, without
interest or return
without regard
for my environment?
Are these sacrifices
to live this way, or
are they simply steps
toward contentment
well-being, equality
and brotherhood?
Jan 12
Jan 12, 2026 at 3:43 AM UTC
I think of thinkers
who describe other sides
of the old stories
and the new talk
who observe what is there
as new and notice something
other than is accepted and
put that into reality
Precisely this responding
to what is already there
is originality
or the illusion of it
In an earlier time
I would have been such a thinker
but now it is of no use
in the easy lives
of well-to-do citizens, no use
to outcasts, no use
to outsiders, no use
to my heirs
May 5, 2023
May 5, 2023 at 3:25 AM UTC