SP above and below II
From chapter 2 of Two Crows
(I guess I really need to call this a semi autobiography
It is going to cover what happened to me be between 1968 – 1971)
Pretty intense years …
I don’t know which is worse;
to want what you can’t have or to want what you shouldn’t have.
I speak, of course, of want in terms of desire not need.
Desire is a curious thing. The entire universe has needs . . .
then strives to resolve those needs.
All that is beautiful or terrible in nature and in heaven is a result of needs being resolved.
Only this unique animal, of which I am one, can desire.
Desire is stronger than need but lacks its rationality,
which explains why unique as well in the community of the universe only
the human animal can be foolish, cruel, or kind for that matter.
It is impossible to need what you should not have,
but it is rather easy to make a career of desiring the same.
If anything else were true there would be no need for philosophers,
poets, monks, avatars or cops.
Because of desire the history of mankind is sloppier than that of the universe
but far more interesting.