Short and Sweet, Short and Awful

Short and Sweet:
we can be awake
to the moment

Short and Awful:
when we aren't awake,
we have two choices:
low functioning robot
or
high functioning robot

Scary?
Exciting?

Easier for a camel to get through the eye
of a needle
than
a rich man to get to heaven

Was Jesus just talking about money
here?
Or was it the bloating up
of me, me, me
that comes from money

In low functioning robot:
we don't like
ourselves
and don't like
the world
and blame just about everything
but
our own
thinking

In high functioning robot:
"we manage our time well,"
we are
"busy,"
we "get things done,"
we know how to
be-have,
we are "nice,"
we say the "right things,"
and all we are missing
in this wonderful program
of the Well Functioning Me Program
is
ourselves
now
in the present

not perfect
not imperfect

just:
ah,
alive


Short and Sweet
Short and Awful

take your pick