| THE RUSSIAN WEEK
Inside this week
is another week & inside that week is another week & inside that
week is another week & inside that week is another week & inside
that week is another week & inside that week is another week so that
instead of 7 days each week is actually composed of 7 weeks each one a
little smaller than its container week but still workable & with rosy
cheeks. This arrangement is necessary. If a week were only a week aka
a standard 7-day week it would not be possible to get things done. Therefore
voila: The Russian week. As soon as it becomes apparent that everything
cannot get done in the albeit larger, more commodious week, one can simply
crack open the inside week, only slightly less commodious in size. Then,
when things pile up as they are wont to do, one proceeds to the inside-inside
week, its size only slightly less commodious again. And so it goes. I will
not go through the process in tedious detail. For that it would be necessary
to have an inside-inside-inside-inside-inside-inside-inside week, i.e.,
8 weeks in all and obviously that is impossible. There may be some future
in developing a system where each of the 7 weeks which constitute the week
would in turn contain 7 weeks, giving 49 weeks in all inside one week,
and indeed the prospect of an ad infinitum progression. But this
proposal lacks the calm symmetry of the established model. It is knobby
& hectic where the other is smooth, rounded, generous, economical-and
natural. Thank God for the Russian week.
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Three poems