people never know
more than vaguely where they are
in the scheme of things
People can be truly amazing …
I got this little theory, an utterly unimportant theory, that most people never know more than vaguely where they are, either in time or in the scheme of things.
People can’t read contracts or time schedules or identify countries on blank maps.
Why should they?
I don’t know.
There’s a wonderful fraudulence to literacy.
Yet these same people have emotional lives as intricate as that Bach piece …
From the book Sundog by Jim Harrison.
No Haiku For You 