Failing Again To Expand My Mind

How much can you put in your mind?

Lately I have tried to admire Big Jim Griffith,

a local force I read about in the newspaper,

an anthropologist of the South West

and scholar at The University.

I liked the title of his book too,

Beliefs And Holy Places. I bought it.

He spent half his time in the field. Good.

But after 20 pages, I quit, 

for it was all yarns from simple folk,

yarns, yarns and more crazy yarns

born of distress, as Religion seems.

I could incorporate nothing except

that someone liked learning about these things

and writing down what people said.

God bless him, and let others admire,

leaving me in my ignorance.