Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Longer Journey


I can walk back and forth
to my neighbor's house
day after day after day and see
something new every time I go.

I can also travel around the world
and never really notice anything
and in the end come back home
empty-headed.

Which is the longer journey?

2 comments:

Dr. Mike said...

Sisyphus

The longest journey occurs
By halving the distance
Continuously for all eternity.

Compromise whittles you down
To a sharp point at the end
Of the stick they use to beat you with.

Nobody ever tested to see
If it’s a ball of beeswax you push
Up that hill, or one of your testicles.

How happy to know certain defeat
Is the reward for poetic struggle!
It’s all a reality show now.

[Disposable Poem November 29, 2009]
Dr. Mike

The Rambling Taoist said...

Neither. Both. Any. All.