12/22
Sonnets From Other Lives: Larry

Larry reading in the Tao Te Ching:
The Ancient Masters didn’t educate—
better people learn the way of not-knowing.
--O…K… Larry thinks—that all sounds great,
but ignorance these days is hardly bliss—
we got too good at knowing stuff that’s wrong.
In the flood of data many miss
the truth itself. They get the lyrics wrong.
They think their taxes rose (when they went down).
They cheer for war—against the wrong opponent.
We’ve become the Democratic Republic of Clowns—
but since we don’t know what we lost, we can’t bemoan it.
He lays in bed and ponders what to do
in lieu of sleeping. Thanks a bunch Lao Tzu.