| | and more slavery, dubai this time, where else? will we ever grasp tanstaafl? grotesque reshapings of the coastline, shark tanks lining the hotel walls, and feces washing up on the beach.
and I'm remembering my dad's sudden offhand bitterness after my mom got off the phone with her sister: the cinderella girl supporting an entire household. he doesn't know why, but this happens a lot among filipinos, he says. my mom, too, at aunty nancy's before my dad met her. the giddy neverland of sloth, the allure of pretty things, pulling the world lopsided.
I'm bewildered. but I know that I am lazy too, that I really, secretly just want to stumble upon wells of talent within myself someday so I can ride out the rest of my life upon a lucky, giddy geyser, another shade of black gold. I'm not sure what separates me from the perpetual clubbers, the monkeys with six figures, the slave drivers both unwitting and witting.
The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half-submerged balls...
The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.
Alex K: *contemplating dyes in warhammer online* Should I get sea foam or sea blue? I think sea blue.
Sarah: No! Sea foam.
Evan: Well that settles it. Sea blue.
Sarah: No! Foam is way better. Foam is more poetic.
*Everyone stops listening*
Sarah: Why would you want blue when you could have turbulence and pollution? Why do you want the placid blue when reality is turbulent and dirty?! *frazzles out*
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