Sin Curve
by Bill Yarrow
Sin? Nah. There's just kindness and hurt.
The sun kills the grass. The wind hurts
the leaves. The sea ravages the shore.
But nothing in Nature goes to Hell.
Neither is anything in Nature kind.
Kindness and cruelty are human add ons.
Everything eats everything else but only
human beings make a big deal out of it.
[The volta cometh.] Maybe you need
to be a premie. Maybe you need to
grow up in Westport. Maybe tutoring
is in your future. Maybe debate.
Maybe a wife, nasty, brutish, and
short. You know, the life of Hobbes.
The sun kills the grass. The wind hurts
the leaves. The sea ravages the shore.
But nothing in Nature goes to Hell.
Neither is anything in Nature kind.
Kindness and cruelty are human add ons.
Everything eats everything else but only
human beings make a big deal out of it.
[The volta cometh.] Maybe you need
to be a premie. Maybe you need to
grow up in Westport. Maybe tutoring
is in your future. Maybe debate.
Maybe a wife, nasty, brutish, and
short. You know, the life of Hobbes.
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Author's Note
This poem was published in Alephi.
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Probly depends on one's point of view.
Ruthless nature.
"Kindness and cruelty are human add ons."
"Everything eats everything else but only
human beings make a big deal out of it."
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Thanks, Jerry, Matt, Gary, Kitty, and Rachna!
Great closing, Bill. Good poem.
Hobbes, dictating: "Life's a beach, and then you die."
Scrivener: "Bitch?"
Hobbes: "If you don't like it, fine. No need to insult me, Jones."
"Say what, sir?"
"How about this, Jones? Life's a beast--"
"May I suggest, sir, something about the essential brutish nature of humans, and how ...um,it must be tamed by, I don't know ... an absolute authority? Or sumpin' like that."
"Hmmm."
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Thanks, Sam, Ray, and Arturo!
"Everything eats everything else but only
human beings make a big deal out of it."
Great line! *
Thanks, Charlotte!
Absolutely love this. A gem.
Thanks, Darryl!