Jack Pelham

It would seem that
After all this time
Man is still eating
What he knows
He ought not eat.

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Not wanting to disappoint me,
He decides to stay away,
Disappointing me even further
And doubling down on the very thing
He tells himself he doesn’t want to do.

He commits himself to the quicksand
And will not be free, it seems
Unless someone else pulls him out.

And I think we are all like him
From time to time
In this doltish habit
Of avoiding the hard moments.

It is a failure
Common to man
That he does not
Seek out enough information
Before deciding.

After all this time
We are still on Earth
Yet farther from nature than ever—
And having no time
We think
To dance with her.

How can I avoid sinning
The sins of my people,
Whatever they may be in my day?

He is wise
Who understands
That he swims at his own risk
Even when there’s a lifeguard—

When you wake up
And see, finally
That you have hurt us,

Slogging away
Through the quagmire—

There is reading for comprehension
And there is reading because you were reading.

And then there’s re-reading—
Because you had been
Reading for comprehension,
But discovered somewhere along the line
That you had slipped into
Reading because you were reading.