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WritingsMay 16, 2025Source article

Listening part 2

Stan cultivates listening until he hears people, animals, and the world clearly—and discovers a planet less appealing than promised.

There was once a man

Named Stan

Who took listening to the next level

He started with level 1

Which was listening to others

He learned to empty his mind

And open it

Allowing the sound of others to enter

He then took that further

And began to listen to the nature outside

And the life inside himself

He began to listen to everything

And soon realized listening is a skill

Worth cultivating

He finally heard his wife talk for the first time

Realized she sounded God awful

So he divorced her

Then he went on a little quest

Listening to the people on earth

For the first time really listening

How awful!

All they ever talked about was work and money

So he went to listen to the animals

Who thought only of their bellies

And he realized that this wasnt the good planet he was promised

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