<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460529" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0038 Underthings</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">See this table top. Smooth, waxed<br>to a point, a soup stain which perhaps<br>a finger nail will lift. Beneath the surface, <br>atoms, molecules, tension and release, <br>law and freedom play out a drama<br>which the teacup does not know or tell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so, much else. All. And so the mind.<br>As if, webcamming the family at play, <br>the screen jumpcuts, plays on the screen<br>your inner life for all to see; the family freeze, cold, <br>open-mouthed…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two years ago, I eased myself into a chair, <br>anticipating pleasant conversation – but instead<br>the camera of the mind presented, in full colour, <br>a glowing red-hot sphere, like<br>a sunset on a dusty day. Or Mars, more like, <br>in all its fierce, fearsome anger – anger<br>stayed on that screen for six whole weeks<br>while body, mind and soul perhaps<br>played turmoil with its outcome quite unknown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just now, I lift my gaze from the crumbs on plate; <br>the camera points at what it should now screen, <br>the window; but the mind sees something else, <br>as clear as mind but rarely seen in mind.<br>It's saying something new about myself.<br>Watch the screen; but watch the camera too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=460529" data-title="0038 Underthings de Michael Shepherd" data-description="See this table top. Smooth, waxed to a point, a soup stain which perhaps a finger nail will lift. Beneath the surface, atoms, molecules, tension and release, law and freedom play out a drama which the teacup does not know or tell. And so, much ..."></div> </div> </div>

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