There's Nothing Really Wrong with Being Last

February 5, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the Chinese, or Lunar New Year, which begins today, February 5, and this year is the Year of the Pig.

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A poem for this Chinese, or Lunar New Year of the Pig, from the Pig’s point of view, explaining why the pig is content to be the last of the zodiac signs to have a year devoted to him:

There’s nothing really wrong with being last.

How much one loses in pursuit of first!

Each sacred soul is neither slow nor fast.

Years yield equal good to best and worst.

Each moment is too dear a sacrifice,

Alight upon the pyre of ambition,

Reduced to ashes, burned-out paradise,

Offered up to some preferred perdition.

For what could be more holy than a meal

That gives two gifts in one – both health and pleasure?

How much more satisfying, much more real

Each bite than any status one might treasure!

Pursuing some mechanical lure, the pack,

Immersed in pride, think only what they lack,

Given grace and beauty beyond measure.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Chinese, or Lunar New Year

2/4: The Point Is Just that I Don’t See the Point

2/5: There’s Nothing Really Wrong with Being Last