05.16.06
Wake
There are reasons to be a sleepy sheep, reasons not to wake up; reasons to stay in bed where the dreamless and unformed blends, unnoticed, into the undreamed and formless. There are reasons to rise at the beckon call of the alarm that alarms the psyche with its liar’s urgency; reasons to play along — ha-ha-only-serious — with its blameless punctuality and non-sane, non-sense demands. There are reasons to do one thing over another thing, but there certainly isn’t always a reason to do anything over any other thing. Rationalization is there to fill in the gaps left when the choice we made was not the perfect fit for the situation there at hand (e.g., getting up or staying in bed; cappuccino or lye, for instance).
That you have spoken my name and with sincerity bade me to live a long, long time: that is reason enough, however else I may feel about my prospects.
