{"id":109377,"date":"2018-04-16T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=109377"},"modified":"2018-04-15T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T15:44:16","slug":"faust-walks-out-on-easter-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/04\/faust-walks-out-on-easter-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Faust Walks Out on Easter Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAll things transient are but a parable.\u201d<\/em>
\n— Goethe, Faust<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These books are killing me he thought.
\nThe sun has risen, the bell tolls eight.
\nI\u2019ve tried to learn before it\u2019s late.
\nI woke to feel I could not breathe
\nSo took both dog and my leave.
\nBeen talking loud for hours now
\nTo no one but the clanging sound
\nOf whether I should go or stay
\nTo hear the lightning have its say.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere,\u201d it asks, \u201cwas I before
\nI flashed across the coming day?\u201d<\/p>\n

But now the sun has risen up.
\nI sense the answer calls me out
\nTo shout at someone close to me
\nThat living is a dark unknowing
\nFar beyond your reach, my friends,
\nSitting there boxed and self-assured
\nNeatly stretched along the walls.
\nIt is true you enclose this room,
\nGive it a stately sense, a hint
\nThat the one who uses it
\nIs wise, knows, has learned from you
\nThose answers held within.
\nWe both know better.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere,\u201d the lightning asked, \u201cwas I before
\nI flashed across the darkening dawn?\u201d<\/p>\n

So I came to the place
\nWhere the lady lay waiting
\nUnder the weeping sky.
\nWho are you looking for?
\nThe gardener asked the lady at the tomb.
\nBut she too could not recognize the living
\nMan, the fierce voice speaking
\nThose breathtakingly lovely words:
\nDo not cling to me.
\nDo not cling.\u00a0 Let go
\nAnd tell the others
\nThat you will not find your truth
\nLiving among the dead, images and words
\nWoven subtly down the page.
\nFor you, dead letters.<\/p>\n

So on and on I walked, asking,
\nWhere was I before that room
\nWhere answers were my tomb
\nAnd where I wondered day and night
\nBefore I wandered lost in fright?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere,\u201d the lightning sighed, \u201cwas I
\nBefore I flashed across the sky?\u201d
\n_____________________________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Edward Curtin is a writer whose work has appeared widely and a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>.\u00a0 He teaches sociology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. <\/em>A former college basketball player, he teaches the sociology of sports, and writes on a wide range of topics.\u00a0 His website is <\/em>http:\/\/edwardcurtin.com\/<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAll things transient are but a parable.\u201d
\n— Goethe, Faust<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":89352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}