WHERE SHALL FREEDOM
BE FOUND?
He has only three
criteria
for going on
living, bearing
the lonely burden
of the years:
aesthetic
splendor, intellectual power,
and wisdom; —
For fifty-five
years and counting,
he has taught the
wisdom literature
of the world, and
still he laments gnostic
ignorance and
cries in despair: “Where
shall freedom be
found?”
To the writing of
many books there
is no end, nor to
the reading, all is vanity
from beginning to
end, and that’s all
one needs to know;
but wait, wait
a goddamn minute; —
Nothing in God’s creation
can supress
the worm from becoming
a man, but how
can he break the
spell and set his soul free
from aesthetic
splendor, intellectual
power, and wisdom?
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