*image by Ben Harubin

 

A Quick Survey Of The Numbers System
One: Hear the radio.
Two: Become familiar with all its programs.
Three: Try and become selective in your listening.
Four: Failing that, attempt to turn it off.
Five: Failing that also, try to at least turn it down.
Six: Failing that too, return to step four and turn the damn thing off.
(Weak people say it's not possible, and for a long time so do the strong,
but the numbers system doesn't lie...unless you listen to it.)

One man was twice as smart as he really was,
but only when he was not at home twice as much as he should have been.
(And only those at home the proper amount of time will understand this.)

And one chap pondered,
"If metaphors are medicine for a sickness,
what do you get when you get well?"
(GOD! -- What a loaded and potentially dazzling question,
and even though he doesn't realize it I'm still almost tempted to answer 'im!)

A man once went to study with a great teacher, and at first received
instructions twenty-four hours a day...then twenty...then fifteen...then
ten...then five...then one, and finally the man had to ask his mind if it
was in fact ever going to talk to him again.
(Yeah, don't you wish…indeed I do.)

And a stranger came to town, dressed as a country singer,
whose featured song was "Don't Come Home A'Thinkin' With Thinkin' On Your Mind,"
which never failed to leave audiences slightly bewildered, but even worse, delighted.
(Must be in fairyland...or else in the head of another stranger.)

One man asked himself,
"What, in the human experience, is similar to glue? Ah, thoughts!"
And his thoughts said, "Feelings, too."
But the man recognized that he was correct in his original single selection.
("Drat," muttered thoughts, sub rosa.)

Question:
If you don't let flies light on you, is that not the same as having no flies?
(Yes, we're still talking about the mind, as always.)