Political Posts
I do these political posts, where I try to work out ideas, and they are much less fun than posting about the Farmers Market. In many ways, I suspect they are also less profound. Life is about concrete particulars. Once you drift into abstraction, you are moving away from the Real.
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
I suppose I should credit the poem: by William Carlos Williams, who also wrote a really good poem about plums:
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold.
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
I suppose I should credit the poem: by William Carlos Williams, who also wrote a really good poem about plums:
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold.
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