Thursday, December 3, 2009

The Mail


Once a day when I go to the mailbox I recite this poem by Wendell Berry. I find it cathartic.

“Nothing is simple,
not even simplification.
Thus, throwing away
the mail, I exchange
the complexity of duty for the simplicity of guilt.”

Throwing Away the Mail by Wendell Berry

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