PrinceMyshkin
08-07-2008, 07:33 PM
“This body...” I remember Robert Bly
leaning into those words
like a no longer young
but still skilled and principled prosecuting attorney
about to try an interesting, complicated,
sly customer...
He made his case carefully
but with passion,
the passion of a man who knew
that every false or lazy word
is a bit of skin stripped from one’s soul...
He had come to read to us
because they paid him (and, I hope,
had paid him well) but how much
would they have had to pay him
(or any of us) to be ‘real’?
I listened and watched this somewhat
pudgy, friendly man of a certain age
and yet of no particular age,
and I wondered
what must it be like to be him?
What must it be like to be anybody?
leaning into those words
like a no longer young
but still skilled and principled prosecuting attorney
about to try an interesting, complicated,
sly customer...
He made his case carefully
but with passion,
the passion of a man who knew
that every false or lazy word
is a bit of skin stripped from one’s soul...
He had come to read to us
because they paid him (and, I hope,
had paid him well) but how much
would they have had to pay him
(or any of us) to be ‘real’?
I listened and watched this somewhat
pudgy, friendly man of a certain age
and yet of no particular age,
and I wondered
what must it be like to be him?
What must it be like to be anybody?