Sunday, December 12, 2010

[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.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

My favorite of you poems to date Big Frank. I couldn't help but place myself in each reference to self.

Spike

Big Frank Dickinson said...

Hey Spike!
Thanks; glad you could relate.

dan patterson said...

Well done. Now you can be proud of yourself, but don't get carried away with yourself.

Big Frank Dickinson said...

"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.