Lunch with Webster
He says:
If I die soon,
say next month
or by the end of the year,
it may simply be
that I got tired
of being crushed
by all the stuff I have,
stuff that I’ve brought
to this old ramshackle
farm from Manhatan,
Toronto & Pacific Palisades,
plus all the local things
I’ve added to the pile
with my idea of raising Wagyu,
my god
three barns & a rickety house
full to the brim,
if it went up in smoke
what a relief I would feel,
with nothing to worry about
I could live to a hundred,
I could lay in the yard
and cover myself with leaves,
I could go on not knowing
what I don’t know
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I can relate, big-time.
Love this portrait of assessment – the gathering of stuff, a condition most of us have!
Those last five lines are really intriguing and beautiful to me. Webster’s wise!
Love:
if it went up in smoke
what a relief I would feel,
with nothing to worry about
I could live to a hundred,
I could lay in the yard
and cover myself with leaves,
I could go on not knowing
what I don’t know
Definitely resonates. And the irony is that it doesn’t matter if it’s a little stuff or a lot of stuff, it can still be overwhelming. Well done.