One thing always leads to another
That’s why big sisters have baby brothers
And how King George gave away a nation
when he said “No” to representation.
He did not not know how much it meant
for those colonies to have seats in Parliament.
Think about it. The cry of the colonies was only this:
“No taxation without representation.”
What if King George had said…
“That is a fantastic plan!
Each colony needs to choose a man.”
And if the colonies had responded,
“We’d like to send two.”
And King George had said…
“Then two seats it will be!
Because you people are important to me.”
The difference that would have made in history,
Will forever be an unsolved mystery.
But I do know this, and I know it for sure:
That having an open mind is a powerful cure
for avoiding problems that can spiral out of control
and haunt you forever, wherever you go.
If there is a moral to this story,
I guess it would be this:
Never shout “No” when there is
a workable way to say Yes.
Never shout “No” when there is
a workable way to say Yes.
Never shout “No” when there is
a workable way to say Yes.
One thing always leads to another.
- I was speaking with Clara, the wife of Danny, one of my clients.
- Clara collects silverwork made by the world’s great silversmiths.
- One of Clara’s hopes is to someday acquire an exceptionally fine piece of silverwork made by – “The British are coming! The British are coming!” – Paul Revere.
- Were you aware that Paul Revere was a famous silversmith?
The unseen silverwork of that midnight man was floating in a slow circle in the asteroid belt of my mind when the haunting voice of Paul Revere whispered silently in my ear,
“What would have happened if King George had said ‘Yes’ and given each of his thirteen American colonies two seats in Parliament?”
A conversation about what Clara collected quickly became a quirky poem that quietly abandons seven words of subtle sexual humor to move into the story of a stupid king who launched a faraway war he could never win.
Creative thought is not sequential; it is relational, a pinball that ricochets off levers and bumpers at unexpected angles, the energy of the unexpected, triggering bells in the brain and flashing lights in the mind.
Crazy Jack Kerouac had rules for writing:
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
8. Write what you want, bottomless from bottom of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow.
My few lines of accidental verse soon became a song sung by imaginary singers who are currently touring the world.
You can catch their show in the rabbit hole.
Roy H. Williams
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