free... But a posteriori, through experience,
he finds to his astonishment that he is not free,
but subjected to necessity, that in spite of all his
resolutions and reflections he does not change
his conduct, and that from the beginning of his
life to the end of it, he must carry out the very
character which he himself condemns...
—Schopenhauer
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*
Good news—
you might think
in passive time
with the rhythm
of a drab lackadaisical
hammock swinging:
I have wasted my life.
But you might
not have
chose to.
And that
thought might
have just changed it
from deep
in the center
on out—one vowel,
one lonely syllable
at a time.
*
This just in—
sexy new pictures
of the cosmic
microwave
background radiation
have proven
to the stunned providers:
the complete emptiness
you were feeling
is both
a complete system—
a sign unto itself—
and
no longer counts
as a pre-existing condition.
you might think
in passive time
with the rhythm
of a drab lackadaisical
hammock swinging:
I have wasted my life.
But you might
not have
chose to.
And that
thought might
have just changed it
from deep
in the center
on out—one vowel,
one lonely syllable
at a time.
*
This just in—
sexy new pictures
of the cosmic
microwave
background radiation
have proven
to the stunned providers:
the complete emptiness
you were feeling
is both
a complete system—
a sign unto itself—
and
no longer counts
as a pre-existing condition.
