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Somewhere in a
college classroom – sometime in the future – 9 am. The Professor: "Morning students… welcome back to our creative writing class. I hope each of you completed your assignment of reading “Bubbles & Bullshit”, and have lots of good insightful thoughts written down, because we have a special guest this morning. We have the author of the poem as our guest. Not often do we have the opportunity to pick the brain ,so to speak, of the author and gain insight into the penning of a work -- but today we do. What a delight! Our class format today will be as normal. We’ll dissect the work allowing you to express your views on purpose, content, style, and possible meanings behind such. But today after we’ve done this, we’ll turn to the author and ask him. How wonderful it will be for us to get feedback and clarity from the person who penned the work. So would all of you please welcome Mr. Taylor, the author of the poem Bubbles & Bullshit". Hi – morning – two hand claps. "Okay… we’ll start at the beginning – the title. Bubbles & Bullshit… very interesting in itself -- what do you think about the title? The title was repeated multiple times in the poem…so it must have strong significance. Was it selected to give us only preview of the content? Was it selected because of similarity or dissimilarity of matter? In this writing are bubbles and bullshit real…or, are they metaphors with deeper distant meanings? And did the author actually see this sight of bubbles and bullshit to inspire the work, or was this just an imaginary cosmic vision of an event he had, which he felt compelled to bring to life in this work?" Fascinating…very fascinating…so let’s hear some of the class thoughts about the title. John give us your thoughts. “Oh yes, he actually saw both bubbles and bullshit while walking through a field. Maybe not at the same time – but maybe one first then the other – but upon sighting of the second, the author captured the fullness of the meaning of each and expressed the beauty and serenity of each in his poem. He saw dissimilar objects on his walk and brought beauty and unity to dissimilar things putting them in harmony in an expanding universe. I think the author was inspired and appointed by powers and forces beyond our knowledge to encapsulate eternity.” Good, very very good John, thank you for your insight. Now Sharon, your thoughts please. “I think the author was in deep deep yoga therapy meditation -- sifting and filtering thoughts through the human brain like the sifting of sand through the hourglass. From these cosmic thoughts, the words bubbles and bullshit came to life and took on special meaning to him. Meanings far-reaching into the universe where life and love dwell in harmony and evil is on the outside of the gates. Where similarities become dissimilar and dissimilarities become similar …a blend in the universe where all things become one. Oneness in an ocean of eternity where nothing means everything and everything means nothing. A place where matter doesn’t matter, thus assimilates into matter that does matter. An apple and an orange become a peach and everything is peachy, fulfilling the destiny of the distant, faraway stars.” Excellent !… excellent !… superb insight Sharon. (a class applaud) I can tell you’ve really done your homework on this one. Wow… how wonderful ! Now we have just enough time to get a comment from the author. Mr. Taylor-- your comments please.... "duh…duh…bubbles & bullshit ???… bubbles & bullshit???…they both start with B." Barnum Taylor © 2010
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