This poem is taken from PN Review 92, Volume 19 Number 6, July - August 1993.
Some Initial StepsSupposing he was right, Pascal:
and that all our miseries
do stem from an inability
to sit quietly in our own rooms?
perhaps I won't go.
And yet Kierkegaard held that,
if 'one just keeps on walking,
everything will be all right',
and we do take steps
to solve a problem.
Now 'walking is the natural recreation
for a man who desires not absolutely
to suppress his intellect,
but to turn it out to play for a season.'
and that from Virginia Woolf's father.
The scandal of pedestrianism,
...
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