Sunday, September 28, 2008

Redirecting (11/17/07)

When the glue seam itself is stronger than the material that it binds, when hair has clogged the drain, when it has bonded with the soap to form a substance both malleable and firm upon which you would wish only your worst enemy to slip, when the cattle of the sun turn away from the sun itself, when the various opposing schools experience a spell of heart-felt reconciliation after you have been excommunucated from their meeting-halls and guest rooms and apartments, when everyone seems to be getting mail but you, and when mail means good luck, and no mail means not oblivion because that word is inflated and grandiose; when the IT department doesn't answer your email although they've glanced at it in passing, when we complete a deed, whether good or bad, we stand and hug one another in the conference room, when we bedeck the room with deadly nightshade adn thistles.

It's not how much money you make, it's how much you handle that gets you kicked to the top. Once there, you can boogie to the African drummers under Calder or Frank Stella in the corporate plaza or lecture on the color green at the campus. And what can be said for green? Green is either renewal or being dead; green is the new branch, green is envy. The green of teh jihadist flag or the Green Party. Green is the emerald isle and green are the mountains in the Green Mountains except in winter, although the White Mountains can be green as well. Turning green couls be thought of as gangrene;green shoots, green algae, although benign, signals that water stagnates. Wheat grass so green it is black. Man must wean himself from grain and starchy carbos. Green Bay surely is not green always. Other than Ireland, what tricolor has green on it. Green signifies fruition in its beginning, red its completion; green envy, red anger, purple rage and stoppage. Among humors, green is unpleasant. Purple is the first color the newborn infant can see; that's why Dr. Cooper painted his waiting room purple. That swimming-pool when unclogged of lily-pads can be a rebirthing pool if I can soak the heiress of her cash. After divinity school, multiple paths appeared.

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