ómnibus democrático

puertas abiertas para compartir percepciones y divagues / open doors to share perceptions and disgressions

Friday, March 8, 2013

Curb Science?

Science, that gives man hope to live without lies
Or blast himself off the earth:--curb science
Until morality catches up? -But look: morality
At present running rapidly retrograde,
You'd have to turn science too, back to the witch-doctors
And myth-drunkards. Besides that morality
Is not an end in itself: truth is an end.
To seek the truth is better than good works, better than survival,
Holier than innocence and higher than love.

Robinson Jeffers (from The Double Axe and other poems, 1948)

Ink-Sack

The Squid, frightened or angry, shoots darkness
Out of her ink-sack; the fighting destroyer throws
out a smoke screen;
And fighting governments produce lies.
But squid and warship do it to confuse the enemy, governments
Mostly to stupefy their own people.
It might be better to let the roof burn and the walls crash
Than save a nation with floods of excrement.

Robinson Jeffers (The Double Axe and other poems, 1948)