Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Life lessons?

What would it be like to be Jon Stewart…
To be like Steven Colbert?
What would it be like to be Batman.
To have a home with a secret lair!?

What would it be like to be president?
What would it be like to be cool?
What would it be like to be decadent
And never feel like a fool?

I think it may always be complicated
No matter who or what you are.
But I know we all want a limo
Even when we’ve got a town car.

We strive for more than we’ve got
Call it ambition or greed or desire
We look to those we want to be
To those we respect and admire

But we rarely get the full story
And maybe that is fine and ok
Cause great things are often inspired
From the statue and not from the clay

Stewart: saving our gotham city from crazy bad jokers. 


Michelangelo's David @ the Ufizzi in Florence.
Can you imagine?...that was once just a giant rock...
  "Michelangelo's intention was that the finished David would serve as more than just a fierce protector of the city. While the figure is menacing, there is no indication that he is fueled by aggression. There exists no tension in his considerable arms or legs. Indeed, the political symbolism of the work conveys a warning to fellow Florentines that "Whoever governed Florence should govern justly and defend it bravely...eyes watchful...." The David embodies the Renaissance sensibility of force tempered by intellect."
FORCE TEMPERED BY INTELLECT!!!! AHHHHH ok onward...

So look to the tycoons and the moguls
look up to the stars, the great paragons
look up to minds and hearts of our era
look up to them before POOF they're gone

But in your awesome veneration, 
remember right now to recall 
that they too once came from nothing
that they too once were just small. 

that they too once ate baby food 
that they cried at their first failure, 
that they questioned all their motives 
assessed their lives like neurotic tailors.

remember we're all just atoms
racing around in distress
and in a way we're inescapably the same
no matter the height of success.

home of the neurotic tailor:)

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