Unreasonable difficulties – A hard man & simple woman

[Doreen Peri]

I am not difficult.
The world is difficult.
I have reasoned this out
time and time again.
Is it unreasonable
to want to the world
to be less difficult?
Is it unreasonable to
even suggest such a thing?
If so, I am an unreasonable
woman, hell bent on simplifying.
Nothing should be so hard.
Except for a man.
I expect and hope for that
in a man.

....

"A hard man is good to find." - Mae West

[Barry]

I like this short piece of yours, Doreen. This part stands out:

Is it unreasonable
to want to the world
to be less difficult?
Is it unreasonable to
even suggest such a thing?

I know the feeling all too well. It gets so tiring to have only the one fall-back position in this life: I cannot change the circumstances; I can only change my responses to them.
I wish I had better wisdom to offer than that.

Peace,
Barry

[revolutionrabbit]

um, well it's apples and oranges really
and if you want an explanation
for that

poetry is like a hard cock
or a tight pussy

and then there is everything else
like Nietzsche says: will to power
"and nothing else besides"

Jim Morrison made sound sexy

[Doreen Peri]

thanks for reading

i wrote this tonight spontaneously on facebook

i don't write spontaneously very often lately other than the Dear Diary thread I created on the Go forum.. it's been a while

I posted this on Facebook:

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

My friend, Dan Cuddy (who has posted here before but at the moment I can't remember his S8 screen name... oh yeah... theirishshea is his S8 screen name.... )

Dan replied

"Interesting quote. I debate within myself whether to be a reasonable or an unreasonable man. Only in writing am I an unreasonable man. In life I try to fit in. Where are you Doreen? Are you a difficult woman? As an artist( you have 3 arts---writing, painting, music) you are probably unreasonable----at least to a degree."

To which, I replied with this poem I posted here.



And there you have it. The history of a piece of writing.

Again. Thanks for reading. And for replying, too! Much appreciated.

[judih]

interesting background, doreen.
i only write spontaneously.
i may pause for a split second while choosing a word (to make it totally echo my need), but it's all spontaneous.

by the way, i can't do spontaneous vocals - i only do spontaneous writing. it's a drag, really.

once i had in my living room: 2 guitarists, 3 drummers and my mind. i could only jam along in writing.
i wrote so fast and so furiously that afterwards i could read none of it! but it was fabulous while it lasted.

oh, but about your poem.
nice!
dan cuddy was a happy catalyst to your outpouring.

[Doreen Peri]

that's how i wrote this .. spontaneously

why did i supply the history? the info of what inspired it?

beats me
shrug

just felt like it i guess

thanks for reading, judih

add your own poetry in reply if you want

[judih]

what's the reason?
where's the reason?
why reason?
all flows, from in to out
nothing unreasonable
cause and effect
reason lurks somewhere
linking from another
on a path of multi-paths
causes of psychopaths
empaths feeding naturopaths
hard to explain
harder to see
nothing's unreasonable
but why? don't ask me

[Doreen Peri]

it doesn't matter.
it's about what it's about.
it does what it does.
it is what it is.
it doesn't matter.
whatever unreasonable
or reasonable or otherwise
feasible or infeasible deal is
goin' on, it doesn't fricking matter,
RIGHT?

what's left is the death of
a judgment. what's left is the
breath of an incumbent
into the realm of office
what's left is the off-center
adventure, the very much more
or less obvious explanations,
never mind their psycopathic
naturocraftic revolations,

never mind their empatic neurofeeds,
their weeding, leading in and out, their
doubt phrases or ways to amaze the
cause and effect itself,
the basic wealth of ownership

the dip and drip of a dance step
and an on again off again touch of
the button

harder to love?
harder to see?
harder to determine?
how about me?
harder to do whatever it is
you want or need to do
in the determining of
an awareness or something
otherwise less than exact.

"If you can't be honest,
at least have the decency
to be vague," he said.
I have nothing to retract.
This is my exact determination.

[judih]

i swear upon this empty book
infinite vagueries
obtuse references
nothing to get your teeth into, nihilist, non-sequiters
past dictionary savories
you'll see what you need to sees
understand what mind decries
to read me will be to read yous
it's true, in a world of endless zoos
a click and a sigh - there'll be no resolution
nor inner illusion, just
crystal clear abstraction
a moment to claim satisfaction
a painting or poem
a sentence or koan
it'll be one tease after another
line breaks (for mother)
i promise more blur
unfocused angle
too much information
and more to infer

[revolutionrabbit]

it matters not
matters little
here we are
with a fiddle
and a riddle
some poets
are full of spittle
some are all dry
a fine mess to
canoodle
when fine mess
is what matters
some poets are
all in tatters
some are in silk
and lace
what matters is
the look on your face
you can erase it or
make another
matters not
matters little

[SadLuckDame]

First I tried to bribe it
than I licked it up and down
well that doesn't work
try the next bit
I bought it a pretty
wrote a hand written note!
still I gots nothing
when I forgot I was trying
it poked straight up.

If so, I am an unreasonable
woman, hell bent on simplifying.
Nothing should be so hard.
Except for a man.

Love it!

[goldenmyst]

Doreen, I love this poem. Your double entendre on men being hard made me laugh. Such a fun way to close my evening. You are not being unreasonable at all. The world it.

John