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.