Health as a Subversive Activity
Life as Subversive Act
for Don
Your first subversive task is this:
Survive. This act alone
Makes you infinitely unpredictable.
Second, learn the lonely art of breath.
Although adepts make it look easy,
Still it sits, a delicate fulcrum
Between enlightenment and death.
The daily offices of swallowing and defecation,
The yoga of a single step,
The dance of language - these,
Simply done with grace,
Will confound all authority
And make a mockery of the impossible.
December 27, 1998