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Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.
—through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.

-William Carlos Williams

The idea of leisure often exists as a counterpoint to work. It’s the goal and reward for completing the minutiae that compose daily adult life. Philosophically, idling is a refutation of fatalism, meaning that if our outcome is predetermined and our fates are sealed, then any efforts extended toward a …