Saturday, May 31, 2014

To Retrain an Egg

Of all the ways to avoid living, 
perfect discipline is the most admired.
                                  —James Richardson


When you apply force
to retrain an egg
that will not
sit up straight
in the carton—or, worse yet,
that delights in the altered states
of wobbly rolling
on the open counter,
freefall looming every second—
things end badly.

Life gone out.
Perfection fled.

But then,
how else will you
bring them to market
properly dressed for 
an orderly transaction?

How else will the consumer
get his money’s worth?

How will the unbroken horse
carry the general into battle?

The simple answer
is far from easy:

Not.

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