Lucky for Us They Don't Know What They're Doing, These Puny Anonymous Creatures of Dark and Damp Who Eat Simply to Live, with No More Sense of Mission Than Nature Feels in Providing for Our Survival

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I realize that moving at this time when I'm getting more hits than ever smacks of self-destructive stupidity, but getting angry at motherfucking typepad was motherfucking unfun and I can find unfun by the motherfucking bucketful without motherfucking typepad's help, and the look here is better and Ba'al bless the updating blogrolls, they're both boon to you bloggers I pimp and a lazy man's dream.

I recognize the inconvenience. Sincere and flattered thanks to friends who've already rewired their bumps here, advance thanks to everyone who will move their bumps and eyes here too. Regular programming resumes soon.

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WORMS

Carl Dennis

Aren't you glad at least that the earthworms   

Under the grass are ignorant, as they eat the earth,   

Of the good they confer on us, that their silence   

Isn't a silent reproof for our bad manners,   

Our never casting earthward a crumb of thanks   

For their keeping the soil from packing so tight   

That no root, however determined, could pierce it?   

Imagine if they suspected how much we owe them,   

How the weight of our debt would crush us   

Even if they enjoyed keeping the grass alive,   

The garden flowers and vegetables, the clover,   

And wanted nothing that we could give them,   

Not even the merest nod of acknowledgment.   

A debt to angels would be easy in comparison,   

Bright, weightless creatures of cloud, who serve   

An even brighter and lighter master.   

Lucky for us they don't know what they're doing,   

These puny anonymous creatures of dark and damp   

Who eat simply to live, with no more sense of mission   

Than nature feels in providing for our survival.   

Better save our gratitude for a friend   

Who gives us more than we can give in return   

And never hints she's waiting for reciprocity.   

"If I had nickel, I'd give it to you,"   

The lover says, who, having nothing available   

In the solid, indicative world, scrapes up   

A coin or two in the world of the subjunctive.   

"A nickel with a hole drilled in the top   

So you can fasten it to your bracelet, a charm   

To protect you against your enemies."   

For his sake, she'd wear it, not for her own,   

So he might believe she's safe as she saunters   

Home across the field at night, the moon above her,   

Below her the loam, compressed by the soles of her loafers,   

And the tunneling earthworms, tireless, silent,   

As they persist, oblivious, in their service.

Another one of dozens of my five favorite songs ever: