"[An] unfortunate encounter with the police occurred when he lit up his pipe on the way out of a subway station. Morgenbesser protested to the officer who tried to stop him that the rules covered smoking in the station, not outside. The cop conceded he had a point, but said: "If I let you get away with it, I'd have to let everyone get away with it." To which Morgenbesser, in a famously misunderstood line, retorted: 'Who do you think you are, Kant?' Hauled off to the precinct lock-up, Morgenbesser only won his freedom after a colleague showed up and explained the Categorical Imperative to the nonplussed boys in blue." --from the Wikipedia article on Sidney Morgenbesser (via Justin Smith-Ruiu)
patchouli shreds · shriller
shrapnel among hungers
decades past this dust trail
where the dead paint lead-bright
& leaves fall fivefold
affordances fizzle
Borobudur dabchick
darkling & now barks at
coffee-colored scaffold
accusingly hoosegow
"Too rare..."
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