![]() ![]() FURIES 4 COVID-19 Seemingly blown out of proportion the intensity of the screams of anger & disgust at the position in which this society sits: Docile Bloated Obese While mocking Reducing the rhetoric to ridicule or worse Yet, It is necessary to understand not the nobility of such phrases But the reality Behind the frustration That Creates Indignation. Nobility can be something besides class. Simple to play a game of intellectual superiority or engage in a show of force for what farce is this? Difficult to recognize the impulse behind the reality of the rhetoric: By not dismembering its content for lack of grammatical rigor by recognizing its passion. Foolish to use the vocabulary of the haves against the have nots. Simple to tear up a piece of paper or manifesto. As if having destroyed the object of one’s disdain. Forgetting for a moment. Other realities too difficult or impossible to name. In the nether world Furies and spirits would lay claim. In medieval times: Salvation!!! the aim. Enduring life as it reignedf amine, Pestilence, starvation death. In ours we think we are beyond the elements Invincible. Our vision a limited one. For there are other voices, Waiting to be proclaimed. Furies wait Even if for Centuries Virtue the gods ! These are not only names. by Daniel P Quinn (c.) Published in Red Wheelbarrow #13 (2020) “organized labor” (2005) (Author House p. 20). |