Reset Forty-Nine, Day Seventy-Four

[rejectomorph]

It gets late when I'm inattentive. Inattentiveness led once again (again!) to loss of power to phone and thus internet, and once again there was a nap while waiting for the recharge, and once again the chunk taken from the night disarrayed things, my brain among them. seriously, I'm facing this heat-waving day with a seriously addled mind. I'm sure there will be things I need to do that will become very difficult due to that addling. The only reason I get up anymore is so I won't get dragged out of bed when they come to take me away. I have no idea what I'm doing, and even less what I'm saying, and I'm entirely out of whys. My consciousness has become the hole in a donut. I wish I had a donut instead.



Sunday Verse

The Laws of God, The Laws of Man

by A.E. Housman


The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Not I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me;
And if my ways are not as theirs
Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
Yet when did I make laws for them?
Please yourselves, say I, and they
Need only look the other way.
But no, they will not; they must still
Wrest their neighbor to their will,
And make me dance as they desire
With jail and gallows and hell-fire.
And how am I to face the odds
Of man's bedevilment and God's?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.
They will be master, right or wrong;
Though both are foolish, both are strong.
And since, my soul, we cannot fly
To Saturn nor to Mercury,
Keep we must, if keep we can,
These foreign laws of God and man.