The Purple Pumpkin II
At Walden Pond he chose
to sit on a solitary pumpkin
not a crowded purple cushion..
Many we know might charge him
with spurious advice..
We are exhorted to
gain our place on the cushion
to prepare for success and
happiness down the road..
Yet we..startled by experience
find very often
purple cushions are painful..
We long to sit on a pumpkin
breathing more freely..
Yet in our longing
the pumpkin may speak
of what lies in hiding:
The pumpkin is purple...
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