Crazy New Special by NetaQ # We walk on the right and pass on the left, or drive on the right and pass on the left. Policies, procedures, rules – enforcing behaviors, traditions, robots, automatons, humans. One foot forward, one foot backward, gauging. Simple questioning to the Time Keeper of secrets. We are thirty, fifty,...
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I beg your pardon, NetaQ. I must have been having another stroke. I have no idea what I was saying or when I wrote it.
Thank you for your response. Hope you are feeling better. Blessing!
Hi Neta. You certainly raise some interesting points here and you have written some memorable lines. I particularly like: ‘we / are just shucks discarded / like porous memories.’
I lost the thread occasionally – I’m not sure if you intended to identify being single as a worst case scenario and I didn’t get the relevance of the non-china types of plate. Probably me being a bit obtuse.
But, yes, breaking rules is likely to invigorate you so long as you don’t endanger anyone else by doing so. Well done.
Thank you for reading! One of our worst hidden secrets is the fact that most of us look at single people as rejects. We do not realize that most choose to remain unencumbered. Your reaction to the styrofoam and paper plate line is actually an incident that I witnessed at a party last year, 2019. A guest refused to accept the styrofoam plate given due to environmental impact. She created such a fuss, blasting the hosts’ lack of understanding and less than earth friendly personas with demeaning caricatures…
Hello Neta
I have asked the questions you raise more often than not. But then there are some basic rules we have to obey if we don’t want a society sunk in chaos. beyond that your questions are justifiable, and I thik one should not neglect them if we don’t want to turn into automatic robots.
Good work. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for reading! In the world we live in our conduct is continually dissected and if we do not conform, we are seen as less desirable. We are fascinated by trends which become our lifestyles, traditions, and norms for our short lifespans or only a few decades. We have seen and experienced worthy, fulfilling, enlightening, and important life altering projects/intelligence/resources, that subsequently fall to the wayside of memories and die.
Hi Neta, a poem full of thoughts and questions. Why indeed. We do have to obey some rules or we would have anarchy everywhere we go. But do we need so many?? I like that this poem makes you think. Well done and thanks for sharing:)
Hi Jane, I do agree that anarchy is likely. But, aren’t we civilized enough to avoid the pitfalls of the past. Or, are we just civil or civilized within our own generation and not learn from the mistakes of the past. I keep thinking in most areas, we climb ten steps towards progress then fall back five, to be repeated with each generation. Thank you for your insightful comments.
Why not, indeed. As you did, perhaps, in the second-to-last stanza? I learned a new word: flexitarian. Maybe that’s the hidden lesson. We all need to be more flexitarian.
Thank you for reading! So many ‘new’ procedures, or modes of conduct/behavior to interpret or inhabit. We sometimes are unnecessarily evolving or seemingly progressing into spirals of insanity.
“Unnecessarily evolving” is an interesting concept. Almost sounds like the title of a scientific paper. Might be worth exploring further.