<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507864" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stupid Meditation on Peace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">“He does not come to coo.”<br> —Gerard Manley Hopkins</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Insomniac monkey-mind ponders the Dove,<br>Symbol not only of Peace but sexual<br>Love, the couple nestled and brooding.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After coupling, the human animal needs<br>The woman safe for nine months and more.<br>But the man after his turbulent minute or two</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is expendable. Usefully rash, reckless<br>For defense, in his void of redundancy<br>Willing to death and destruction.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Monkey-mind envies the male Dove<br>Who equally with the female secretes<br>Pigeon milk for the young from his throat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For peace, send all human males between<br>Fourteen and twenty-five to school<br>On the Moon, or better yet Mars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But women too are capable of Unpeace,<br>Yes, and we older men too, venom-throats.<br>Here’s a great comic who says on our journey</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We choose one of two tributaries: the River<br>Of Peace, or the River of Productivity.<br>The current of Art he says runs not between</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Banks with birdsong in the fragrant shadows—<br>No, an artist must follow the stinks and rapids<br>Of the branch that drives the millstones and dynamos.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is peace merely a vacuum, the negative<br>Of creation, or the absence of war?<br>The teaching says Peace is a positive energy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still something in me resists that sweet milk,<br>My mind resembles my restless, inferior cousin<br>Who fires his shit in handfuls from his cage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Pinsky">Robert Pinsky</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=507864" data-title="Stupid Meditation on Peace de Robert Pinsky" data-description="“He does not come to coo.” —Gerard Manley Hopkins Insomniac monkey-mind ponders the Dove, Symbol not only of Peace but sexual Love, the couple nestled and brooding. After coupling, the human animal needs The woman safe for nine months a..."></div> </div> </div>

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