Who cares whether “beauty is truth, truth beauty”? When seekers after both assassinate
Who needs someone to prevaricate or to integrate meaning with illusions?
She claims she speaks for truth and beauty, but all she does is aggravate.
She says its more important that she make sure you live up to her higher standard
Than for her to agree with you when you’re right. After all, isn’t it beauty to live up to a higher standard?
But what if that higher standard is not the truth? But she believes it is the truth
Because pressure is beauty. She enjoys screaming at you because she wants to keep you
On the straight and narrow. She believes in Atheism and Clarence Darrow.
She believes in intellectual professors who argue pointlessly to prove nonsense
Because a PhD is beautiful. Because she believes that all that brainpower must be able
To find the truth. Republicans are “We need no book larnin’ here,” but Democrats are in love
With the empty phrases. No one has any common sense. Just follow the leader
And the leader is Rush Limbaugh or Dennis Kucinich, or whatever commentator fills your head -
Fills your head with biases towards the quote they play for you. Or leaves you ignorant of
The quotes they refuse to play. Is it true you cannot fight City Hall? Is that Truth?
Does the Mayor find beauty with his seductions? To fight City Hall you must be smart and lucky
And if you last long enough you become City Hall yourself. But what is truth and beauty?
“I heard your lies, but the look in your eyes made the lies worth believing,” – Alan Parsons Project.
What of “The Last Hurrah”? Can a man have so much charisma that he fill out his empty platitudes
Like FDR was able to make the platitude that “all we have to fear is fear itself” sound like
Something more than the inanity it is? How often did we cheer Reagan because he looked so sympatico?
Look at how he dyed his hair. So much fashion goes into packaging THE MAN.
What is truth? What is beauty? What of the Playboy Playmate that does not know how to dress
And is better off wearing nothing than the trash clothes she wears on the street?
Is the Playboy Playmate beauty if she speaks the truth? There is a sort of beauty that is truth
Regardless of the soul who inhabits that beauty. The movie “My Week With Marilyn”
Describes Marilyn Monroe as an irresistible force dedicated to moviemaking.
Was Marilyn that beautiful? Did she speak a truth? I have never seen her movies
But friends tell me that she was outstanding in the movies where she was allowed to act.
But her career was defined by the blonde airhead of “Some Like It Hot.”
She was laughed at when she read Dostoevsky, but she was a serious actress.
Friends tell me that Marilyn Monroe was outstanding in her last movie: “The Misfits.”
But who speaks truth and who is truth? Does someone embody truth the way Winston Churchill
Came to embody truth at the end of his life? And Marilyn Monroe embodied beauty
When she was a young woman. Marilyn Monroe never got to be old and Winston Churchill
Grew to be very old. Did Winston Churchill ever get to be young? Did Marilyn Monore
Ever get to be young? “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” – Bob Dylan; The Byrds.
“My Back Pages.” But hear Bob Dylan sing “Pawns in the Game” and “House Carpenter.”
I wish I could write with as much truth and beauty as when Bob Dylan actually plays well -
When Bob Dylan is outstanding, rather than when he fiddles and tools around.
Rather than when Bob Dylan makes rhymes that rhyme but have no logical progression.
I would know that “beauty is truth. Truth beauty.” I intuit it is so, but I am too scientific.
I am not a poet and I look for mathematical answers with words. “It’s all too much,” – The Beatles.
If we cannot take in the totality and the whole image, we can understand a detail of the Breugel.
We can be Rembrandts in our own world, as if we were Oscar Wilde who put his talent into his work
And his genius into his life. But I would not be Oscar Wilde or anybody else but myself as a failure
Who punches and comes up short and can do no more than to quote Theodore Roosevelt “In the
Arena” that we are not done as long as we strive and keep coming. A man is not beaten until he has
Given up. Who said that? But that is truth. Not giving up is beauty.
Tags: beautiful souls, foolish intellectuals, Marilyn Monroe, opposing beliefs, physical beauty, the search for meaning, truths greater than ourselves, Winston Churchill
