The Pecking Order

A thoughtful creativity professor sent me this image, and added 'e.e.cummings wrote a poem called“the song of olaf”...in which he provides wonderful advice for dealing with the assholes of the world: “...there is some shit i will not eat...”'   I think the poem and the picture go together well, although those birds at the bottom of heap need to find some way to fly away if they want to avoid spending their days eating the crap dropped from above -- not unlike the predicament that some abused underlings are caught in, as in the above post and associated comments on the damage done.

Comments

[Bob Sutton]

Wally,

Thanks so much for providing the link to the poem. I never read it before. I plead guilty, when you read the poem, it is clear that the context of the quote doesn't quite fit, but when you take the quote out of context it works pretty well... and I revised things a bit to tie it in even better. On the other hand, most famous quotes end up being used out of context, and are used to make points that nothing to do with the original intent, as the quote persists longer than the content. Thanks for keeping me honest!

[Wally Bock]

The poem referred to is "I sing of Olaf, glad and big."
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15408

Read the poem and then decide if it goes well with the cartoon. I don't think it does.