Alan Harris reading
Freedom Grounded
by Alan Harris
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Hypnotized by young freedom, I chased bedazzling baits of my choice until pain came crashing through my doors. Thank you very much, freedom. And I ate choice foods with delight until my older arteries became clogged with a near calamity of consequences. Freedom, do you need to be fatal? Computer-enabled, I freely flew commodity futures like a test pilot, with precision eyes trained on my instruments--then crashed. Hello, is anyone there? Freedom, you truly stink. Can I at least be free not to be free? "Serve," says no voice. Serve? Why serve? "It works." Serve without pay? "With or without pay--but with energy." No more freedom, then? "Remembering your former agony while serving where the need is, you gain a grounded freedom." From whom do I hear this? "From the call without a voice." |
From the book Just Below Now (2000)
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