Old Age: Those who have not lived the holy life, who have not acquired wealth in their youth, lie like spent arrows, grieving for times past.
Dhammapada 11.156
White people should educate themselves
privileged as they are.
Problem is, they've burned the books
that would have helped them,
or else
so terrorized librarians
that they have hidden them.
First-person narratives?
Why should I take the time,
said she,
to over and again
educate you on me?
See
white people have made the bed
they now lie in.
It is not a princess and the pea
sea of mattresses either.
This bed's old and narrow,
hard on the bone,
with a mattress like stone.
Dhammapada 11.156
White people should educate themselves
privileged as they are.
Problem is, they've burned the books
that would have helped them,
or else
so terrorized librarians
that they have hidden them.
First-person narratives?
Why should I take the time,
said she,
to over and again
educate you on me?
See
white people have made the bed
they now lie in.
It is not a princess and the pea
sea of mattresses either.
This bed's old and narrow,
hard on the bone,
with a mattress like stone.
