<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448370" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Crushing Pestle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I take my habits outside<br>and crush them in the pestle<br>because they constrain my life<br>even as I yearn to move beyond them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I set aflame all my cultural presuppositions<br>because they prevent me from seeing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I take each and every thought which in the past<br>seemed evident<br>and like Einstein<br>ask why do I accept these ideas as true? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am in pursuit of my own genius<br>and its antecedents.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But my pestle strategy<br>is seen by all as rebellious<br>and I am crushed low soon<br>by church and state.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But visions never die<br>and in the dead of night<br>they return<br>asking why<br>tossing and turning<br>in my mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448370" data-title="Crushing Pestle de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="I take my habits outside and crush them in the pestle because they constrain my life even as I yearn to move beyond them. I set aflame all my cultural presuppositions because they prevent me from seeing. I take each and every thought which in th..."></div> </div> </div>

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