Taken with iPhone Camera. Edited with CinemaFX and Photogene.
My head is splitting open. Or at least that is the way that it feels. What great and profound wisdom can I impart in metaphorical form using this photo? Nope…got nothing. Sometimes an apple and orange is just an apple and orange.
for some reason this poem by Scott Cairns sprang to mind.
Imperative
By Scott Cairns
The thing to remember is how
Tentative all of this really is.
You could wake up dead.
Or the woman you love
Could decide you’re ugly.
Maybe she’ll finally give up
Trying to ignore the way
You floss your teeth as you
Watch television. All I’m saying
Is that there are no sure things here.
I mean, you’ll probably wake up alive,
And she’ll probably keep putting off
Any actual decision about your looks.
Could be she’ll be glad your teeth
are so clean. The morning could
be full of all the love and kindness
you need. Just don’t go thinking
you deserve any of it.
—
I hope Scott Cairns will forgive me for publishing his poem here. I heard him at a poetry reading back when this poem first came out in the ’90s, and was very moved by it.
Manual: p.121 Multiple Exposure
Images: Boston Globe’s Big Picture On the Shoreline.
