Questions and answers

I feel like I ought to put something here tonight. It's been a while since I've exhibitionistly offered myself up to cyberspace (not counting my shameful facebook activities)... anyway, the beast is growling. I'm listening to Leonard Cohen, and thinking about how people need poetry in their lives... even if they don't realize it. The need was somewhat supplanted in centuries previous, with religions full of smells and bells and a life generally full of mystery. In our time, almost everything seems to be explainable; it's harder to find, that kind of poetry that flattens you with its beauty and the infinitesimal truths it reveals about the universe. I wonder about people who desparately cling to religion... and people who go every Sunday, not knowing why... Maybe it's not God they're looking for, but just poetry. The feeling that there is at least something in the universe which is beautiful and unexplainable and true. So I long ago realized that organized religion was not for me, and recently realized that the spiritual experience is perhaps something I do want in my life, something I already have in my life, if I pay attention to it. I love poetry.