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After I Believe
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I don’t know how
to live for you
I wish I did
I know
the Spirit is supposed
To guide me,
Though what are
the steps to take
And practices
to follow
I don’t know or am
out of practice
(hah)
Or never knew and need
Companions
also in the flesh
To help me
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Photo taken from The Nue Co. marketing campaign.
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seven at a blow
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99,000
new cases here
on Friday
don’t know how it is
where you are
here we’re still denying
we want to go to bars
though barkeeps
are smart
and want to know
how safe
each patron is
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we want it to be over
so much so
some say
it never happened
it’s not happening
but for the family
the friends
we’ll never see again
this side,
what are we to say
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that
the multi-million deaths
from the same thing
was not
is not
it isn’t happening?
what kind of remembrance
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it’s nice
that we don’t want
to hear about it
and it’s cruel
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we could apologize
the COVID series doesn’t care
numbers on the news
numbers in my family
and yours
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I don’t know
where it started
I heard a bat
and I like bats
for all they consume that
I’d rather not have
around
in numbers
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China?
sure
made up maybe
in a lab,
who’s to know?
I don’t know
I’ll care later
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for now,
I want you to be safe
I want us all
to move on to health
then I’ll gladly buy
the next round
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oh, there is a story
about numbers
seven at a blow
to keep us
frosty
to keep us
skeptical
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and, hey,
I want you to be well
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Published on March 22, 2020
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Chaotica
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Lord,
It’s a good day
For normal praying
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In churches everywhere
There will be choruses
That say it right
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But my prayer
Is cacophony,
Nothing regular
Or regularly rhythmed out
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I hope you will forgive that,
All the off-pitch, off-key
Murmuring,
Uneven humming through
The perfect angel-layering
Of formal prayers
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But I need you;
I need your company
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You could simply sit close by,
And maybe we’d say nothing
To each other
And somehow know
Eternity is hearing
Everything as it should
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Everything that’s needed
To respond just right
To an uneven,
Lopsided,
Person praying badly
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Out of place
In whatever place
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Photo by Daniele Levis Pelusi on Unsplash
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Why Sometimes There’s a ? Mark
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The ending of a movie
Doesn’t say
“The End” so
Much, which
Might be just as well
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Stories go on:
An event has an ending
However it might
Dwindle
Toward an emptiness of
Time and company
While the next thing is in
Motion
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Motion, motion—
Investment of potential,
Expenditure
Of energy,
Profit of contribution toward the
Turning of the Earth
And shall we say it,
Joy
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Yes, using
The “eternal delight”
Of Blake
Amid the envying of
All unmoving things that want
To be introduced
Into the
Calling rushing of the universe
And so it seems
Never the end
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On Set
Photo by Avel Chuklanov on Unsplash
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A Game of Go
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I should go
And now I must
Hello, Captain Spaulding,
And now
I must be going
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Where I do not know
(I think the
captain
meant to stay)
And I must balance
Coins upon a plate
Upon a stick
Held high
That somehow starts a kind
Of arch
Maybe an energetic
Ley line
That on the other side
Under the same sky
Is a place
To land
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With only a few more things
Broken
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(English-teachery note)
Captain Spaulding is a character performed by Groucho Marx in the movie (first the play) Animal Crackers.
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A Korean couple playing Go in traditional dress. Photographed between 1910 and 1920.
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No One Asks for Silence
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No one asks for science,
Really
The lack of noise would drive us
Where we’d never want
To go
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But no one wants barrages,
Either
Of war or words or walls
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Not being unflawed,
I cannot claim forever
Virtuosity
So now inside an unjust
Place, I have to
Assay justice for the now
Against the always
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Time and change
And I shall go away
And hope not to return
Because larger signs
Of decay
(naught to do with me)
Already settled in
Before the current woe,
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And I should have owned the signs
Enough to leave
A while ago
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Seonyeon-ri, Okseo-myeon, Gunsan-si, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea x
(x = space)
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Day 3
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Of an awful week
When everything still hurts
And crying underneath the skin
Wants out
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Being ganged up against
As electrons, anyway
What they’d say for real
We’ll never know
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Time for change
But how a change
When nearly everything
Is frozen
Like Merlin
Like Ophelia
What kind of life might
Come after
Shouldn’t be a mystery
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ice on the fountain in my yard
Photo by erin mckenna on Unsplash
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Prescriptive Talk
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The pain
It courses through me
I want to feel better
I want vindication
I want acceptance
In the world
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Mainly, though,
I want the pain to stop
And feel better in
That way
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Spikes
Photo by Andrey Grinkevich on Unsplash
Meadowlark Botanical Gardens & Meadowlark’s Winter Walk of Lights, Vienna, United States
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Hot Mess
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A knifing pain
Guts through
This is not a study
The other one
Must be a saint
So this must be the demon
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Hooked on one’s own
Fallacies, who can
Judge the partial
And unknown?
Who should?
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God should
But we are here
On Earth
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lit cooker gas ring
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