Monday, January 9, 2012

Listen

A wise owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why are we like the wise old bird?















Sh...
Now pay attention

The rock--it's talking. And the fog, too, and the grass and the goddamn mogooses. Everything talks. The trees talk politics, the monkeys talk religion...The place talks. Understand...it truly talks.
...you got to listen to your enemy.
Because that's the moment we really know what we're made of.

Listen!
Just listen.

So they listen
All they do is listen
Absolute silence. They just listen.



You hear that?
Shh!
Don't interrupt.

I didn't say a word. Did I say a word? [I] didn't say anything.
Sh-sh-sh!
Don't say a word. Don't you dare. Not a word.
I was talking, wasn't I...Will you let me talk?
Don't talk anymore.


Ah wanted to preach a great sermon...but they wasn't no pulpit for me.
There was no place for me. Nobody listened.

Nobody hears nothin'
Not a single sound, except they still hear it.
The town could not talk and would not listen

So new thoughts had to be thought and new words said
People said what others wanted to hear. Thoughts and words were no longer one.

Shut up!
Don't yell...stop yelling...!


He wouldn't listen to you.
He certainly will listen to me.
Most people never listen.
They don't got tongues. All ears.
This is never the case. Never.













...no theme, no message, no thought.
Silence.









That quiet--just listen. That's your moral.
Listen!



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