Trevor Abes

Justice Revisited

To read Sartre in church, or get a divorce
Simply because it feels right.

 

To major in nothing because you refuse
To be stereotyped as an academic.

 

To smoke or not to smoke. To get drunk to find out
What all the fuss is about.

 

To experience. To show rage towards he or she
You previously thought you never would.

 

To spend your time writing about
The supposedly insignificant things in life,
Like barbershops or trees
Or microwaves.

 

To reserve the right of indifference towards everything,
After reading l’étranger by Camus.

 

To sin, knowing that most religions are probably
More made up than the last novel you read.

 

To feel the need to throw up each time
Somebody mentions a book by Coelho
As if it were literature.

 

To be critical, and love it. To trust no one
For a while out of mere curiosity.

 

To read Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac
As if their works comprised passages from the bible.

 

To get caught up in it all,
Not knowing the end result.