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wise words
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What is the difference between genius and stupidity? Genius has limits. - Albert Einstein.
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Mitchell Metz |
9/5/02 |
EUMAEUS AND THE MISSUS
Discuss Odysseus in Ithaca, Disguised
Who was that man by the fire, Pigman?
        Baby, that man was me. You must mean the bum.
Yes, you the man, Pigman. Who was he?
        I the man, baby. Pigman am the man.
Who was the bum, Pigman?
        He wasn't nobody. But he could talk. He talked some shit.
Oh, mister? You do know shit. That you know.
        I know more than shit. Ask me to show you what I know.
We too old, mister. You ain't got show in you no more.
        Not as old as the bum, baby. He as old as they come.
Who was he, Pigman? Who was that old bum?
        I don't know. But I got a feeling things is gonna change.
Things is never gonna change, Pigman. Now come here.
        I knew it, baby.
© mitchell metz 2002
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