Found Poetry : Peculiar Julia’s NaPoWriMo Diary Prompt
Plant FOR THIS Planet
the flip side
Several months ago, I picked up some free “National Geographic” magazines at a local bookstore. When I was little, my uncle gave me a subscription. I’m pretty sure I only met him once. The subscription went on for years. Maybe until his death?
I remember looking at the stunning pictures. I think I didn’t read much more than the captions.
I must have saved them because, in my Philosophy 101 class, our professor (who was in lust with the drug dealer’s Polish girlfriend) assigned homework that combined philosophical quotes and pictures from magazines. I remember very well a Nat Geo picture I had of a little boy on a mid-west farm staring at a night sky full of stars and using this quote to illustrate “stoicism”.
[The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
My professor lost all of the carefully crafted homework I turned in. Maybe his bald-headed mind was elsewhere. I’ve not yet forgiven him. Someday . . .
