CHRIS SEMANSKY
Radical Honesty is a kind of communication that is
direct, complete, open and expressive. Radical Honesty means you tell
the people in your life what you've done or plan to do, what you think,
and what you feel.
-- Dr. Brad Blanton, Founder of the Radical Honesty Movement
A husband confesses to his wife that he has never loved her.
Then he takes it back, says he doesn't know
what got into him. He weeps, begins reciting names
of his childhood pets: Princess, Baboo, Cheesecloth, Phidough, Stelazine . . .
"Stop. Look in my eyes," his wife says.
An old woman with a sheepish smile
Announces that she's always wanted to sleep
with Jesus. "Such a good man," she says.
A twelve-year-old girl spits on a photograph of her father,
then punches herself in the head.
At the Ranch of Radical Honesty the good doctor
surveys his guests, reminds everyone
they are different kinds of witnesses,
that proper translation is half the battle.
A man waltzing across the floor in garters and a bonnet
falls to his knees. "That changes everything," he cries.
The kitchen sink begs not to be thrown in.
Poem, © 2000, CHRIS SEMANSKY
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