So what can we learn from their watery ends? Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living, a life that is good is a life that’s forgiving. We’re creatures of contact. Regardless of whether we kiss or we wound, still we must come together.
Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more, since it beats staying dry, but so lonely on shore. So we make ourselves open, while knowing full well it’s essentially saying, please, come pierce my shell.
An excerpt from David Rackoff ‘s rhyming essay, “Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace,” featured on This American Life. In the story, a scorned lover delivers the classic fable of the tortoise and the scorpion as a speech at his ex’s wedding and ends up reimagining a classic tale of enemies in a beautiful new light.
Listen to David’s reading here. It’s beautiful.
Listen to David’s reading here. It’s beautiful.
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