{"id":11843,"date":"2014-02-13T10:04:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T15:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=11843"},"modified":"2014-02-15T10:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T15:30:24","slug":"when-excessive-rudeness-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/02\/when-excessive-rudeness-pays-off.html","title":{"rendered":"When Excessive Rudeness Pays Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something worth remembering …<\/p>\n

The Buddha and the Pork Chop<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Apparently the Buddha met his end
\nThanks to an excessive degree of politeness.
\nThough he was vegetarian, someone prepared him a meal
\nAnd the Buddha felt obliged to eat what he\u2019d been offered.
\nDue to its being a bad pork chop, the Buddha died. <\/p>\n

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Illustration: Claire Palmer<\/p><\/div>\n

Clearly Buddhists keen to follow the Buddha\u2019s example
\nBut reluctant to share in his hapless fate
\nShould be ruder \u2013 \u2018Don\u2019t you know what happens to people
\nWho push shit to aspiring Buddhas? They get reincarnated
\nAs used toilet paper. Now fuck off and die, shitface.\u2019<\/p>\n

You may think that that\u2019s excessively rude
\nBut whoever offers you death should be rebuffed.
\nDeath comes soon enough without its useful idiots
\nPeddling its wares: guns; dead flesh; unhappiness.
\nOnce they\u2019ve softened you up, they can sell you syphilis.<\/p>\n

Heathcote Williams<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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