Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for December 16, 2024
December 09, 2024
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Transcript:
I bargained with Life for a penny And Life would pay no more However I begged at evening RENT OVERDUE! FINAL NOTICE When I counted my scanty store. SIX PACK For Life is a just employer SPARE CHANGE? THANK YOU He gives you what you ask But once you have set the wages Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial’s hire PARAMEDIC Only to learn, dismayed That any wage I had asked of Life… …Life would have paid. MY WAGE by Jessie B. Rittenhouse
If only it were that easy for everyone.
“I looked through others’ windows
On an enchanted earth
But out of my own window—
solitude and dearth.
And yet there is a mystery
I cannot understand—
That others through my window
See an enchanted land.” ― Jessie B. Rittenhouse Born: December 8, 1869 She Died: September 28, 1948 Occupation: Literary critic
The strips poem is from “The moving tide: new and selected lyrics and also “The Door of Dreams”