If you find you're feeling breezy, it is likely you are a loose-leaf blowing through the world, an indifferent wind. If so, you are also the cricket of our inevitable twilight singing our requiem.
You may think you are only responsible for that which you blow, but boy is there a storm a-brewin'
because time and time again, it ain't nothin' but a breeze for some
But for the rest they leave a mess, and they expect those who cannot pay others to clean up after them to clean up after everyone else.
It is all too easy to wonder what you could have done better to prevent a mess once it has been made. I find even easier to wonder if everyone had the resources they may need to unmake a mess, if messes would find themselves made as often. If everyone had enough resources to make messes and unmake messes would a mess be a mess anymore?
But like a bug splattered window or a 12 car pile up some go on, watching as others wade waist deep in the wake. Failing to realize that people get hungry. And that people are supposed to eat when they get hungry.
CAN YOU AT LEAST WATCH WHERE YOU WALK?
And they are also selling big shoes for stomping on toes.
They come only in one size
If the key is seeing that which you have not seen before, then the answer is to keep looking.
In all cases, there is only one place to point fingers. Towards those who insist on having, holding, and seeing, more than their fair share.
Sometimes one of us will hold another by the neck. In a time when we constantly question and promote new ways of being-together, of sharing, of redistributing, and in the face of growing inequalities, well we should have to make some sense of that.
WHAT DO WE HATE?
WE HATE seeing others prevented from having that which is necessary and least.
It is plain and good and simple.
All things built may bust, burn, break, melt, crash, or crumble.
If it was once built and it still stands, you permit it to remain
FINDING ONES WAY FORWARD
What is not so plain or good or simple is what we've got going on over here. How it tends to lean towards those can afford to tip the scale.
There are crooks, tricks, traps, corners, cages, and cheats but there are also clues. Because when some are trapped by circumstance and convention, it is up to everyone to work cooperatively to meet the needs of one another.
There are people with plenty. Plenty money, plenty privilege, plenty power, plenty homes, plenty beds, plenty time, plenty space, plenty fortune, plenty luck, plenty sprouts in their garden, plenty water, plenty shoes, or plenty matches burning holes in your pockets. If you are a person of plenty there is only one thing to do:
If you are a person of plenty you need to pay. Regardless of how you found yourself in your plentiful position.
I know what you are, plentiful person. You're a hollow in a world too full. A cul-de-sac of black holes.
Give away that which you have plenty of to those who have less than enough. Then there would be enough pillows for every single American to safely rest their head each night.
Cut the strings that bind you to serve only yourself, and ponder what it would be like to use your plenty to privilege another.
Then we all become bound.
All it takes it the strike of a match, the paying of debt long overdue, a walk through the wood, a talk by the flaming fire, or perhaps the planting of a seed...
Sweet Solidarity
"We shall set fires, and when we set them we shall know why."
Jesse Ball
