In the morning, the sea of soybeans is eddying in the wind. the bats under the eaves squeak and settle in for the day. stray stalks of corn stand proud in the early sun, glowing gold, surrounded by lesser plants, volunteering.
Think, dear sir, of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking what you will; whether it be remembering your own childhood or yearning toward your own future-- only be attentive to that which rises up in you and set it above everything that you observe about you. What goes on in your innermost being is worthy of your whole love; you must somehow keep working at it...
machinery.
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i am driving this beast, with
joints and levers, fluids, bones.
we smash so easily, come
apart, leak, choke.
and what then, when the tackle
falls to pieces, ...