the devil makes me do it

March 16, 2009

Rather than deny
our beastly origins,

let us embrace
the little monsters.

We cannot teach those
we do not embrace.

We tend to kill them.

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10 Responses to “the devil makes me do it”

Paul Says:

March 16, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Accept the inner animal, excellent advice. And I love the little barbed ending, perfectly timed.

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htmm Says:

March 17, 2009 at 7:16 am
i like it

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qazse Says:

March 18, 2009 at 4:16 pm
For example: I think we must understand what sexuality is and is not. In our schizoid relationship with sex we tend to treat it as meaning rather than biological fact. Women who admit urges are “whores” when in fact they are hard wired to procreate. Ironically, our denial of our animal nature keeps us from transcending it. We suffocate in our own preoccupation.

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krkbaker Says:

March 19, 2009 at 6:44 pm
I was just having this conversation the other day. Funny how that works.
kim

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qazse Says:

March 20, 2009 at 9:15 am
kim – what was your point of view in the conversation?

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pauline Says:

March 30, 2009 at 12:12 pm
“We suffocate in our own preoccupation.”

this is as telling as the poem!

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Johnny Peepers Says:

April 1, 2009 at 11:13 pm
The little demons make the world go round, the demiurge’s spawn, the archons embrace.

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qazse Says:

April 4, 2009 at 3:05 pm
pauline – thank you

Johnny – very poetic

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mikaelah Says:

April 7, 2009 at 9:40 am
Well…here is how it appears to me in my experience …when the little “monsters” are totally embraced and I mean totally – I have noticed how the “monster” part just disintegrates. I mean it falls apart… could be the transcend you talk about, I don’t know. Anyway… it seems to me that the only teaching ever needed was in the connection…and that isn’t really a teaching but more of an awareness of how alike we really are… and then after that … it’s just a love fest.

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qazse Says:

April 8, 2009 at 12:20 am
mikaelah – I like your embracement to disintegration insight.

In the poem, I think I am coming from the notion that there is a certain amount of socialization of our offspring we are required to do. It is natural for them/us to act in certain ways – along certain vectors. Our responses are a mode of teaching. Often parents and institutions label the person as “bad” when they are simply acting from instinct. Perhaps a child is told that the devil made them distracted and they did not love jesus enough to pay attention. Or it is a mortal sin to think about sex. Or it is evil to use birth control.

I agree with you. The only teaching really required is in awareness of our inter-being.

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