[Photo: Big Frank Dickinson]
Thoughts on Reflexive Actions (Do It Yourself)
---- Big Frank Dickinson
You have but few things you can’t do;
Unto your precious self;
You can’t begin yourself
Nor with yourself fall in love. However,
You can love yourself; hate yourself;
Touch yourself, and taste yourself;
Be good to yourself and make yourself cry;
Talk to yourself; and listen to yourself;
Lie to yourself even when telling the "truth";
Be yourself; and disguise yourself;
Discover yourself; and lose yourself;
Take yourself seriously; and make yourself happy;
You can also hurt yourself; and heal yourself;
Introduce yourself; and ignore yourself;
Bore yourself; and entertain yourself;
You can take yourself apart;
Hide from yourself; and fool yourself;
In all these dances its always true that
The self same self that yourself serves
In turn serves you yourself.
You yourself deserve yourself.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
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4 comments:
My favorite of you poems to date Big Frank. I couldn't help but place myself in each reference to self.
Spike
Hey Spike!
Thanks; glad you could relate.
Well done. Now you can be proud of yourself, but don't get carried away with yourself.
"Don't get carried away with yourself" . . . interesting concept. In a sense you can't really avoid yourself - carried away or not, so if you are not carried away you are with yourself, and if you are carried away - it's with yourself. So maybe what you meant was don't get carried away.
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