Wednesday, December 22, 2010

would that it were all so simple...

if this were to materialize....(simplicity)
i suppose we'd have less minutia and superfluous 'gobble Dee gook' weighing us down....(well, DUH!)
perhaps we, in fact, CREATE the extraneous stuff
 in order to deflect from the REAL TASK AT HAND...
to such an extent, that we actually FORGET what we were DOING in the first place !!
complicated creatures we are...
and really SO SIMPLE in our  extreme need to
AVOID and PROCRASTINATE..
perhaps we should BAKE A CAKE....
and bury a file down deep into the folds of cream and lemon rind and vanilla...
in order that the one eating can have the POSSIBILITY of ESCAPE...
escape from the excesses of detail and complication....
just sayin.....

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