for prodigal read generous
—for youth read age—
read for sheer wonder mere surprise
(then turn the page)
contentment read for ecstasy
—for poem prose—
caution for curiosity
(and close your eyes)
“I suppose that the coat of skins, when first devised, was the cause of such envy that he who first wore it met his death in ambush; and yet after all the pelt was torn in the struggle and completely ruined with much blood so that it could not be made of any use.“
Lucretius | On Nature