IAM NOT CONTENT

from Poetry · host Terry Mulcahy

Lao Tzu, legendary Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism wrote: Be content with what you have rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you. I AM NOT CONTENT with what I have. I do not rejoice in the way things are. Never! Not until I am buried with all my stuff my swords and shields and my slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Bury me with my prejudices and ego with my stress and anger with my desires for revenge with my unkind words with my thoughtlessness. Bury me with my sloth and gluttony. Bury me with my pride. Bury me with my lust for who and what I cannot have and my lust instead for possessions to surround me. Bury me most of all with my sadness and loneliness. But don't forget to come back and dig me up. Leave all that other stuff cover it with reinforced concrete. Put up a sign that says: Danger! Radioactive! Highly Poisonous! Do Not Dig Here! Do Not Disturb! Then I will belong to the world.

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