CLOGNITION

 

 

 

  Never Mind

 The Beatles   

You'd say I'm putting you on
but it's no joke, it's doing me harm
you know I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain
you know it's three weeks, I'm going insane
you know I'd give you everything I've got
for a little peace of mind.

 

 

Bumper sticker seen on June 17, 2002:  The thing that I lost that I miss the most is my mind
 

 

Walt Whitman (1819–1892).  Leaves of Grass.  1900.

306. Says

 

I SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person, that is finally right.....

I say nourish a great intellect, a great brain;

If I have said anything to the contrary, I hereby retract it.

I have said many times that materials and the Soul are great, and that all depends on physique;

Now I reverse what I said, and affirm that all depends on the æsthetic or intellectual,

And that criticism is great—and that refinement is greatest of all;

And I affirm now that the mind governs—and that all depends on the mind.

 
 

 

 Emily Dickinson (1830–86).  

Complete Poems.  1924.

Part One: LifeCXXVI

 

THE BRAIN is wider than the sky,

  For, put them side by side,

The one the other will include

  With ease, and you beside.

 

 

  

The brain is deeper than the sea,

  For, hold them, blue to blue,

The one the other will absorb,

  As sponges, buckets do.
 

The brain is just the weight of God,

  For, lift them, pound for pound,

And they will differ, if they do,

  As syllable from sound.
 

 

Mark Twain  

  Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

  Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

  Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

  When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

 

 

now i grip the wheel
fear is what i feel
at the slow unraveling of
me

 

 

 

 

 

but you tell me it's temporary
it's a matter of time
by god
don't you think i know it's in my mind
and it's right over left
and healing the then
i'll soon be to nothing
but i don't know when

 

 

  

then i self despise
cryin' out my eyes
'cause the happy trail
led me to remorse,
but the road is long
and the song is gone
i blow empty
in my cicada shell
if i saw my choice
i might find my voice
but i don't know when
and i just can't tell

 i'll soon be to nothing
but i don't know when

INDIGO GIRLS

 

If I Only Had ..

... a Brain


 

 

 
I could while away the hours
Conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain
And my head, I'd be scratchin'
While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain.

 

I'd unravel ev'ry riddle
For any individ'le
In trouble or in pain
 

With the thoughts you'd be thinkin'
You could be another Lincoln,
If you only had a brain.
Oh, I could tell you why
The ocean's near the shore,
I could think of things I never thunk before
And then I'd sit and think some more.
I would not be just a nuffin'
My head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain.
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry
If I only had a brain--Whoa!