1.01.2006

"The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness."
--Jonathan Edwards
I started reading Taste and See by John Piper this week. He is an Edwards fanatic. The quote above was stated in a sermon by Edwards when he was only twenty years old. Can you imagine understanding such deep levels of theology at twenty? I'm twenty-three and I barely grasp Piper's concept of Christian hedonism.
I decided that right-justified was fun for today.
I've been having this hankering/yen to play catch for the last few days, but so far, I have yet to satiate my desire. At least it's warm enough that there will be future opportunities.
School starts on Tuesday. I'm not extraordinarily thrilled about going back to work, but I think that once I get there, it will be good. There's a work day tomorrow, but I'm trying to avoid thinking about it.
Poems to be written
just get stuck
and refuse to come out.
Desires to be aesthetic
intouch
artsy
are left vanquished
by peanut-butter syndrome
(when it
clings to the roof
of the mouth
making speech
difficult)
no one
understands you
garbled
sticky
stupid.

1 comment:

Veritas said...

Wow! Witty poems decrying the inablilty to be poetic. I love it. My thoughts are often quite peanut-buttery too. My problem is that when I think they are smooth and creamy,they usually come out chunky. Oh well, c'est la vie!
Oh, and by the way, glad to have helped satiate your yen for catch. I had been feeling the same way for years!