Eddie Arana, Rick Thibodeau, & Chris Bakunas San Diego, Ca. March 2012

Eddie Arana, Rick Thibodeau, & Chris Bakunas San Diego, Ca. March 2012
Eddie Arana, Rick Thibodeau, & Chris Bakunas at Luche Libre Taco Shop in San Diego, March 2012

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Self-Reliance Only Gets One So Far


Somehow he had managed to fall in with a group of Transcendentalists
Devoted to the power and purpose of the individual
He espoused that everything that mattered
Was readily available in every person's soul
And emphasized
That every person
Had a good soul

His purpose, he claimed, was to learn to feel
Feel everything and anything
Feel the earth, feel the sky
And to let his imagination run his life

He shunned structure and organization 
At all costs
The dictates that held sway in his life
Were those of nature
Nature was, he repeated time and again
All he or anyone ever needed
As far as physical comfort
Was concerned

The masses devoting their lives
To desiring and acquiring 
The latest and the greatest
Had lost sight of what was truly meaningful

He said mankind was not meant to be enslaved 
By time
Animals never looked at clocks
Those people who lived in the plastic reality
Of the artificial world
Punching time cards, collecting paychecks
He wanted nothing to do with them
Except, of course

When he had his hand out for some spare change



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