I actually heard a guy say that when he was coming out of the library. He threw his backpack down
on the steps all pissed off. It was a good question.

there reaches
this devotional stage
of concentration

in which the stars and stripes
decorated ink-wise beneath the
cuticles of a big toe

become fanfare nightskies, patriotic
moonshines of decades ago stupors
prize fights, longings.

It is in these daydream seconds
one begins to fear the face

so that, like the perfect antonymn
of Medusa

your eyes never meet,
head bowed in
the thought of, so beautiful

would rightly
turn
to
stone.

Withthat said,

if someone
grazing granite steps

came upon a student digging
through the void of backpack

and were to hear him
exclaim:

“fuck! what am I supposed to do with
only one chopstick?”

It seems it would be
mere second nature,
a noquestion -

to then know
of the desperate need for

compliment.

The ego is always looking for some trouble. Why? Because if nobody pays attention to you, the ego feels hungry.

It lives on attention.

So even if somebody is fighting and angry with you, that too is good because at least the attention is paid. If somebody loves, it is okay. If somebody is not loving you, then even anger will be good. At least the attention will come to you. But if nobody is paying any attention to you, nobody thinks that you are somebody important, significant, then how will you feed your ego?

Other’s attention is needed.

In millions of ways you attract the attention of others; you dress in a certain way, you try to look beautiful, you behave, you become very polite, you change. When you feel what type of situation is there, you immediately change so that people pay attention to you.