Open Garden
The Earth will never /
Be the same, but it is not /
Ours to begin with.
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Haiku and photo: “Open Garden”
Filed under 2019, haiku, photo by David E. Booker, Poetry by David E. Booker
Thoughts of the blathering idiot: Change
The blathering idiot was emptying his pants pockets when he came across some change he didn’t know he had. He stared at the pennies, nickels, and dimes and he thought about the nature of change:
Be an agent of change, unless, of course, you change your mind.
Of course, you could be so poor that you can’t change your mind.
Change is inevitable; it’s the folding money I’m not so sure about.
Count your change and then count your blessings. Whichever one is greater, that’s where you are: blessed and broke, or cursed with a lot of loose coins weighing down your pockets.
If there was one thing about me I could change it would be … oh, never mind, I’ve changed my mind.
Brother, can you spare a controversy?
“Change is one thing, progress is another. ‘Change’ is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.” ~ Bertrand Russell
If still alive, I wonder what Bertrand Russell would make of Rick Perry and a host of others, mostly conservative Republicans, who find climate change dubitable indeed. Then again, Perry and company don’t have much truck with science. Progress as they define it is not a matter of controversy. Change, however, is. And if they have to change the way they think or act or the truck they drive, well, that’s the most controversial of all.
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