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Human satisfaction is "like the alms thrown to the beggar, which reprieves him today so that his misery may be prolonged till tomorrow."
We find out what we wanted not when we get it, but when we don't get it.
The brain is a slave of the will. Consciousness follows the whims of cock in pursuit of pussy..
What I call will, Freud would call the triumph of the id.
[The painting on the right is by Gail Campbell, 2016.]
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
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