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Retired Husband

> RETIRED HUSBAND
>
> After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to
> Zellers.
>
> Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring and preferred to get
> in and get out. Equally unfortunate, my wife is like most women - she loves
> to browse.
>
> Yesterday my dear wife received the following letter from the local Zellers:
>
> Dear Mrs. Harris,
>
> Over the past six months, your husband has caused quite a commotion in our

Panhala Poetry ~ Wendell Berry

I've been subscribed to this poetry site for several years. Love the poetry selected. Today it's from
Wendell Berry. The Bokonon quote I have been at-one-ment-with since I first read it....

How To Be a Poet -- Wendell Berry

Let your life be the poem you write. -- Bokonon

How To Be a Poet
(to remind myself)

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Basho

“Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.

And in doing so, you must let go of your subjective preoccupation with yourself.

Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and don’t learn.

Your poetry arises by itself when you and the object have become one, when you have plunged deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden light glimmering there.

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