Friday, April 04, 2008
Shel Silverstein, The Missing Piece
In the first encounter It has with a pie shaped “missing piece,” It immediately deploys the rhetoric of the demanding “possessor” subject. Without asking any questions or even stopping to see if the piece fits, It sings “I've found my missin' piece." To which the pie-slice immediately objects:
"Wait a minute" said the piece "Before you go greasing your knees and fleecing your bees...""I am not your missing piece. I am nobody's piece. I am my own piece. and even if I was somebody's missing piece, I don't think I'd be yours!"
After the initial rejection by the first piece, It realizes that finding the object of one’s desire will not fill the lack. Instead, It must also ensure that the object of desire wants this attention--is playing the role of the objectified being. Realizing this, a later encounter is different:
"Hummmmm?" "Ummmmmm?"
We all just want a little piece.
Just a little taste.
All the love there is sent your way. :)
xoxox,
Sir Real
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