Contemplating the riddle of time
(Smoking like an existentialist)
Establishing a new paradigm
After a fork in the road a twist
Into a sudden turn for the best
Having escaped at last from the worst
(And the best is better than I guessed)
Change is good as I am not the first
To realize (though it took awhile
To see)
But seeing at last it makes me smile
To be
Ready for whatever life might require:
Out of the frying pan! Into the fire!
+Steven Curtis Lance
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Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
Reviewed on October 16, 2009
Haha!1 Your "Smoking like an existentialist" caught my eye as I was wandering around / The poem was a delight, but the line and the image of the Sarte's and Camus', etc. really floored me. I can see them holding a cigarette in the fingers, palms upward and being oh, so cool . . . gotta love it . . .
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