It’s easy enough to read the words on any page ~ a crinkly newspaper, a regular book
with covers, a pamphlet for baby formula, a bus schedule that takes you from here
to there. It’s easy enough to make all the squiggles and marks on a page with black
or blue or red ink, or tap them out
on a keyboard, so words flow or play
bumper cars with each other. But
after all the words have been
written, with care or a finesse
that is only belief, or maybe were
dashed off in wild thought, it is not
easy to round them all up and make
sense of them. I suppose they are
rather like cats in that regard. Once
they’ve curled up and settled themselves,
they just want to be left alone to snooze.
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.
I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
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