Wednesday, February 15, 2017

(But See How Quickly I Become a Turn-Human)









TREASON

Bill Knott

Do our footsteps really want to become footprints? -
I mean: think of snails - if
one of them could move as fast as one of us -

wouldn't he be a traitor to his own -
a turncoat - a 'turn-snail - ?
No, no! Please don't pick them up and throw them;
they can't fly. They can only move

as they move, oh so endlessly across
this same ground we walk across ourselves
quite easily, not even hurrying;
this oh so same ground covered

with out foolish, wastrelly footprints -
which will never, never, become footsteps!
(But see how quickly I become a turn-human.)



5 comments:

  1. Poison-Free Funny:

    A LITTLE DUCK walks into a grocery store. He waddles up to the grocier and says, "Hey -- got any duck food?" The grocier thinks. "Um, no," he says finally.

    The Little Duck looks up at him. " 'kay," he says, and goes away.

    The next day, the Little Duck was back. He waddles in, looks up at the grocier and says, "Hey -- got any duck food?" The grocier looks down at him; is this duck nuts? He was just in here! "No!" the grocier says.

    " 'kay," says the Little Duck, and he goes away.

    The next day, the Little Duck was back. He waddles in, looks up at the grocier and says, "Hey -- got any duck food?" The grocier spins around, looks down at him and says, "NO! I told ya -- I gots NO DUCK FOOD ! You come back in here askin' about duck food again and I'm gonna nail your little webbed feet to the floor!"

    " 'kay," says the Little Duck, and he goes away.

    The next day -- the Little Duck was back. He waddles in, looks up at the grocier and says, "Hey -- got any nails?" The grocier thinks. "Um, no," he says.

    The Little Duck shakes a little. "Ooo! Okay ! Got any duck food?"

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  2. I am in a hell that strangely worsens by the day.

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    1. I hope it's more the world than real life. xoxo to you and yours.

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  3. An additional excerpted Funny:

    "David Hume
    Could out-consume
    Schoppenhauer and Hegel;
    And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
    Who was just as sloshed as Schlegel"

    -- University Of Wannamalaya Drinking Song, by Michael Baldwin Bruce; appeared on The Python's Flying Circus, April 1970, in Episode 22, "How To Recognize Different Parts Of The Body"

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