Moth to A Flame.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis wrote a poem based on an imaginary conversation between a rat and a moth. The rat asked some hard questions. Why did moths fly into candles and other bright lights and risk getting themselves fried to death? The answer, written in the poet’s unpunctuated style, is very instructive:
we get bored with routine
and crave beauty
and excitement
fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
and what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while
Surely that must also be the insane logic of drug addicts and alcoholics and all others who deliberately kill themselves for a few minutes of excitement.
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