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Just-So Story
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God is like dust upon the floor,
Too easily swept up,
Cast out, forgotten ‘til it
Appears again
And we take it as
Nuisance
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No, it is not God
(bits of God’s creation)
But a metaphor,
Since we so easily ignore something
That is everywhere
So easily ignored
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And move to name detritus,
An inconvenience to
Our just-so lives,
Just so
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C L Couch
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Rudyard Kipling wrote Just So Stories. Note from an English teacher.
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clcouch123 
January 3, 2021 at 9:21 pm
Said the Elephant’s Child…
Yes, we have a nasty habit of clearing away things that disturb, annoy, displease in some way, with the excuse that it’s dirty or it spreads disease. It’s ignorance of what really matters.
January 3, 2021 at 9:27 pm
Just right. Just who we tend to be. Make it look good, because that’s all we need. It is ignorance plus the tragedy of how much meaning we miss.
January 3, 2021 at 9:28 pm
But aren’t we clean and tidy?
January 3, 2021 at 9:31 pm
Yes, we are. There is the term “Sunday best” for how we should appear, which I’ve come less and less to appreciate. For many of us, Sunday worst would have more integrity and be of more use.
January 3, 2021 at 9:34 pm
Sunday best applied to almost every item of use that couldn’t ever be used or worn except on Sunday or when there were guests. The old worn out stuff was good enough to be actually used. The ‘best’ never ever wore out or broke. Stupid. In French it’s called petit bourgeois behaviour.
January 3, 2021 at 9:40 pm
Like the living room that no one lives in. Only for guests or never. I guess I’ve thought that the excitement about a house is it’s being used.
January 3, 2021 at 9:44 pm
I wonder how they ever kept kids out of those ‘guest’ rooms?
January 3, 2021 at 9:46 pm
Good question. And couldn’t families use the space?
January 3, 2021 at 10:10 pm
You’d think so, wouldn’t you?