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I have to take this class called Wellness Through Leisure and this week we had to read all these different articles about different research that was done on various different aspects of Leisure and really most of it is a bloody waste of time. I end up skimming through half of the articles because most of them just prattle on for an unnecessary amount of pages and do not really reveal anything useful.

You know how every now and than there will be some new study about this or that ...

There is no answer for this. Only a
bored cat’s mauling of a songbird.

If all I ever do is recoil from
this little crime called nature

I risk nothing. But I’ve got to risk it all,
risk everything. Weigh the world in stones
not cotton candy.

The backlash of fifty lashes to the back of
my fifteen year old skin. That first night
alone in the barn (fifteen miles from
Elvira Gulch’s home)

...

Shaken, not slurred
Verbal eating incurred;
Pride masked as honor
Calls a meeting adjured
Threats are heard
Protest averred
Someone's a goner
The minute they shoot out the bird
'Cause the weapons are there
Disguised like a spare
Part by some stubborn guys
Who'd as soon fight with hands bared
If provoked on a dare
Or led on to care
By the bulk and the size
Of the insult that drives them impaired ...

I see faces that
everywhere fascinate me
& pretty soon

they will all become
the visages of showroom
mannequins blending

with the blandness of
the fog-like reality
residing within.

What is this living,
a challenge of the spirit
or conformity?

Would Zarathustra
have left his 'Blissful Islands'
with its volcano

& traded it all
to stand ...

Heart reaches out
Tenderly, delicately,
searching for any hint of
harm or threat
hidden in the advance

I tell it no
Get back in your
love-proof vest!
The world is dangerous

I have no need to
explain this
as it has been demonstrated
to Heart
by break
after break
after break

Still, Heart reaches out
wondering, watching,
pleading for a cause,
...