{"id":23,"date":"2007-10-11T15:44:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T20:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaybuena.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2007-10-11T15:44:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T20:44:21","slug":"nobody-knows-de-lousely-troubles-is-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/nobody-knows-de-lousely-troubles-is-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody knows de lousely troubles I&#039;s seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:44,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.robertburns.org\\\/works\\\/97.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240330191009\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.robertburns.org\\\/works\\\/97.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-01 06:59:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-16 22:07:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-05 19:35:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 15:01:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10 02:00:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-02 03:15:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-08 20:23:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-17 02:10:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-28 19:09:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 11:41:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 20:32:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 03:00:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 09:02:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 02:34:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:500},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 22:00:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:500},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 22:28:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:500},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 17:44:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:500},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 07:53:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:500}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 07:53:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:500},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Most educated people remember Robert Burns&#8217; poems,\u00a0who amongst many memorable verses and lyrics, wrote &#8220;Auld Lang Syne&#8221;,\u00a0which is sung at midnight on New Years\u00a0Eve in so many places around the world, having become a ritualized part of many a\u00a0country&#8217;s\u00a0culture, transcending it&#8217;s lyrics\u00a0and\u00a0verse into a classical verbal tradition.\u00a0 Yeah, it was along time ago, and the dude was Scottish and talked (and wrote) in a weirder than all hell version of English, or even\u00a0in what might have\u00a0passed as Old English&#8230;but he was a prolific poet and indeed needs to be included as\u00a0part of American and\u00a0certainly, all English speaking countries&#8217; education, as he was a significant writer, indeed. (check out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/97.shtml\">http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/97.shtml<\/a>\u00a0for the source whence cometh\u00a0this particular one of my\u00a0usual snide and idiotic comments and\/or critiques, this time having the nerve to do so of his very famous poem: &#8220;To A Louse:On Seeing One On A Lady&#8217;s Bonnet, At Church&#8221; (1786).\u00a0 Heck, I was just a kid back then.\u00a0 But I remember my Dad quoting the last verse of this poem, as his mother often did to\u00a0children as an illustration that sometimes a person&#8217;s appearance, does not that person make; or maybe, no matter how refined\u00a0a person\u00a0seems, he or she has unfortunate\u00a0problems like we all do; or given the span of this work,\u00a0perhaps when we get too proud of ourselves, for what ever reason, we are not always viewed by others in this same fine and positive way.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the last verse:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 O wad some Power the\u00a0giftie gie us<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To see oursels as ithers see us!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It wad frae mony a blunder free us,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An&#8217; foolish notion:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What airs in dress an&#8217; gait wad lea&#8217;e\u00a0 us,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An&#8217; ev&#8217;n devotion!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When I raised my daughter, if and when I used that verse, it was simply a very entertaining way of reminding the little idiot\u00a0not to trade hats with the other\u00a0little buggers at\u00a0elementary\u00a0school, as there was the possibility of\u00a0one, if not many of her friends traveling with\u00a0 these lousey tiny parasites that tended to hop from one head to the other,\u00a0if only\u00a0for variety&#8217;s sake.\u00a0 Besides, as all parents of little\u00a0rug-rats know, there will come a day, when as you comb out your beautiful princess&#8217; hair (in my case this was so long ago as to seem an abstraction, however lice are always a popular subject in our local newspaper to remind me of their reality) one day you will go completely bonkers at the sight of one or many of these tiny terrorist head lice; in order to rid one&#8217;s family of these interlopers, they must be &#8216;treated&#8217; immediately or the whole family will travel with a tribe of tiny parasitic hitch-hikers upon\u00a0all heads.\u00a0 Also, and perhaps the most fun part\u00a0of this situation, is that all bedding, clothes, and the beds themselves must be washed with hot water and strong detergent, and\/or sprayed down with something particularly toxically specific to kill head lice. All this must be done (along with the rather nasty application of a foul but innocuous (for children) shampoo, and the ever popular nit picking (always a favorite) fine-combing the hair free of the lice in their larve\u00a0 or egg stage)\u00a0or\u00a0the little jerks (your kids)\u00a0just get reinfected;\u00a0 so getting rid of these\u00a0nefarious parasites\u00a0it is a hassle indeed&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I am a great believer in the\u00a0encouragement of\u00a0early-onset microbe-phobia, to say nothing of\u00a0 the promotion\u00a0of fear of all nature&#8217;s disgusting or revolting realities, regardless of their particular &#8216;color,\u00a0creed and codes&#8217; and their consequences.\u00a0These must all be\u00a0openly and repeatedly brought to\u00a0the attention\u00a0 of all, when raising said rug-rats, er&#8230;kids.&#8211;Who says this instills fear and or neurosis?\u00a0 Too bad. Those GD things are real, and so are other horrible germs, bacteria, \u00a0and some of those\u00a0other little friends\u00a0can be\u00a0extremely dangerous too, in some way.\u00a0Take it from me, I used to be one, many years ago and in a far away land.\u00a0 \u00a0And as for &#8220;creeds and <strong>codes<\/strong>&#8220;: this is a big &#8220;<strong>No\u00a0No<\/strong>&#8221; or you could end up with a house full of computer geeks\u00a0coding like crazy&#8211;this <strong>must be stopped <\/strong>as well.\u00a0(just kidding about that, there is no safe haven for that problem.)Yowsa.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0For example the first time I heard the TV Character&#8221;Monk&#8221;ask his assistant for a wipe, after shaking hands or having handled something or someone of a dubious and questionable nature, I didn&#8217;t get the humour implied. \u00a0It\u00a0seemed a perfectly reasonable request,( and although I have no assistant, with the exception\u00a0of\u00a0my imaginary friend, Mrs. Tiesdale) and a perfectly acceptable act, indeed.\u00a0Not that most wipes would save you from all gross stuff, bacteria, and\/or lice for instance, but it&#8217;s a good start.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I am in digression yet again, however,\u00a0I recently read the currently discussed\u00a0whole poem and pondered it&#8217;s\u00a0real meaning to me,\u00a0and how I could relate to this predicament in these days and times; I discovered\u00a0that even though,\u00a0the &#8216;fine Lady&#8217; in the poem, who had seemingly gone to such trouble with her visual appearance was not aware that Burns viewed the\u00a0louse on her bonnet; and his seeing these unlikely compatriots in tandem, his comparison between them,\u00a0was unquestionably with out a likely trait.\u00a0It is totally\u00a0obvious that he was grossed out by their relationship; and quite \u00a0disturbed,\u00a0as she, although oblivious to the lice,\u00a0was obviously\u00a0feeling about her self and her appearence\u00a0in a positive way.\u00a0 And then Burns set&#8217;s off on a strange and delightful dis&#8221;ing of\u00a0the louse for homesteading on this fine lady, and not some gutter snipe, of whom he deems a more fitting and likely candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, now I can say from inside my own experiences, that a lady could look reasonably presented, nicely groomed, or even richly turned out in designer threads and such, but have a mind full or horrible thoughts and experiences eating themselves out from the inside of her head.\u00a0\u00a0Such thoughts \u00a0tend to come out at unfortunate times, \u00a0such as when writing a blog about what was supposed to be an amusing take on this poem.\u00a0 I remember being questioned by the checker at the local grocery, asking me &#8216;what was wrong and could he be of service?&#8217; ?\u00a0 I must have had a horribly\u00a0bothersome and\u00a0revealing expression on my face at the time, one indicating worry or dissatisfaction, as I was actually at that time in an internal debate with the ideas of\u00a0Nietzsche as opposed by Kant, both German philosophers and both developmental in existentialism.\u00a0 I was trying to remember which one of these ner&#8217;do well German dudes came up with the idea of &#8216; that which harms us makes us stronger.&#8217; This being, and always was, to my\u00a0mind, a quadruple thunk up load of shit from the first time I heard it till today, some 50 years later.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But\u00a0how was I to\u00a0gather these ideas and opinions together in a way to answer the grocery checker&#8217;s question of &#8216;how I might be helped?&#8217;\u00a0 I was speechless, until the idea came to me that someone waiting in line at a grocery store with this sort of\u00a0 internalized mind-daemons in action, was obviously over-educated to far\u00a0beyond the level of her native intelligence and in the first place has (1.) too much time on her hands, (2.) needs to review her philosophy notes and books before hitting the grocery store, (3.) needs to be made aware of the need for a serene untroubled facial continence, (4.) or learn to think quick and come up with a relevant question, such as:&#8221; Where is the salt?&#8221; or &#8220;Do you have any paper bags,&#8221; under these circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Admittedly, I went over the top with that, but the point being: what can be worse than lice outside the head, is to be in the act of destructive and unanswerable thoughts of\u00a0such a powerful negative nature as mine were, at such a time,\u00a0when innocently facing the grocery clerk.\u00a0 One is better to live in the present and the now, (by the way, where was the salt?) than to be thinking of such no-matter, snowballing, unanswerable, irrelevant and\u00a0unseemly questionable philosophy&#8217;s in the first place.\u00a0 As for example, though Carl Marx, another acclaimed ,though long deceased, philosopher managed the writing of&#8221; The Communist Manifesto&#8221;, and gained world wide fame, <em>never having\u00a0experienced\u00a0a job <\/em>in his entire life.\u00a0 What the hell gave him the nerve to think on this scale, with so little life experience?\u00a0 And why have I lost that kind of nerve, myself? \u00a0&#8216;Having been kicked to my knees so many times by life&#8217;s boot, that one of those knees had to be replaced by a prosthesis.\u00a0 To my mind, the grocery clerk was probably the smarter person and certainly the more responsible, doing good honest needed work.\u00a0 Carl Marx was a blow-hard that probably spent time in internal debate in line at the grocery (actually a far too mundane thing for him to have done&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I answered the grocery clerk&#8217;s question by reconfiguring my facial expression to a sheepish smile and shook my head, indicating no.\u00a0 Hopefully, during that non-verbal answer, no head lice were detected or spread by my gesture, and these mind deamons are not contagious, unless expressed to others. He was a lucky guy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Most educated people remember Robert Burns&#8217; poems,\u00a0who amongst many memorable verses and lyrics, wrote &#8220;Auld Lang Syne&#8221;,\u00a0which is sung at midnight on New Years\u00a0Eve in so many places around the world, having become a ritualized part of many a\u00a0country&#8217;s\u00a0culture, transcending it&#8217;s lyrics\u00a0and\u00a0verse into a classical verbal tradition.\u00a0 Yeah, it was along time ago, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R4qt-n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20,"url":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/since-i-cant-get-this-dang-thing-recorded-here-are-the-lyrics-to-a-new-song\/","url_meta":{"origin":23,"position":0},"title":"Blue Screen-Blue Sky (song lyrics)","author":"Kay Buena","date":"September 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"What can be done but agree; The sky's still blue, but does not see with all our eyes- a moon so strong to reflect electric songs, Heard far and wide but still inside. 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