Not just paper
Deuteronomy 23:12-13
12 “Also you shall have a place outside the camp, where you may go out; 13 and you shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse.
Paper
Here we go again. Time to stop scribbling.
Was it worth the while to let whatever roam?
Is the paper wasted, was it better for my siblings
To write their heart’s desires as a common goal
I guess there is more paper than thoughts of importance
It must be predestined that paper comes on a roll
Is far more important to leave impressions of importance
To be flushed away as it pays our destined toll
I am kind of glad that it does not have a line
that has to be followed to appear civilized
Only used behind my back like a reaping pantomime
That carries the end of simple waste to be standardized
Here is a place where part of us joins all together
No difference now visible between the poor and the rich
Being healthy or sick does now not really matter
As there it shows for certain that depravity is a bitch
Next time you touch a roll of paper kiss it before you use it
It brings happiness somewhere to a strange mind like mine
Make sure that gentleness is much better than to abuse it
For in this environment it beats corncobs by a mile
Jan Wienen
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