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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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