Preferred indifference,
the Stoics say
The arm’s length model
where choices stray
In for a penny,
in for a pound
The shield left naked
—when outward bound
(Dreamsleep: May, 2021)
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Kurt Philip Behm (
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Often, I feel
if it wasn't in our nature
to be so stubbornly contrary, as a mark
of futile defiance and innate duality..
we could have found
our most rewarding way of life
by merging the middle ground sanity
of Stoic acceptance and resolve
with that originally unindulgent ideology
of Epicureanism's, unassuming humility
to find enough in those simple pleasures
of a well managed, temperate life
attentively tuned to our natural needs and desires..
what more could we want for, truly?
Wise words indeed.
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