no sound

he made no sound

laughing

though belly bobbed

and cheeks bounced

though hands waved

and body swayed

he made no sound

laughing

a hungry child

whipped into silence

Don't Perturb

flashing 'cross his mind

trapped in a death-house

a frozen zone

for making sounds

including laughter

thus it was there

in comedy's air

he made no sound

laughing

*Thoughts of Jean Sulivan:

  -Believers almost always  imagine that faith means certitude.

  -Learn to recognize the faith that reveals a secret despair.

  -For me the absence of doubt would be disturbing....I'm speaking of an active doubt that hunts out prejudices and every kind of idolatry, an ongoing discovery that grows stronger by overcoming all obstacles.

*What would happen to the consumer economy if we began to believe that any amount of happiness is enough.

-Gary  Greenberg

*All too often people are betrayed by the word freedom.  And as freedom is accounted among the most sublime feelings, so the corresponding disillusionment can be sublime.

-Kafka

*Religions get lost as people do.

 -Kafka