(x = space)

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Absenteeism

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Parents have to leave

Or leave us go

As we leave them

Which by degrees

Admittedly

Works out

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Sometimes perforce

The orphan Jane

At Lowood

Or the orphan Arthur

Growing up

Near Tintagel

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Or what simply happens

As a course in time

Experience must study

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My mother fifty years ago

My father twenty-some

Naturally

And counting

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Except for cancer

Preternatural

Or do we kill each other

With our poisons

In the water

In the air

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Well

Finally

It is the time of children

And shall we

Improve upon the time

And did our parents

Tell us to

And does it matter

If they didn’t

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Goonies

Say this is our time

And they are right

(we’re right)

And now we have their story

What is yours

What is mine

What is ours

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Take the time

To have the time

Let it chapter well

With abundant energy

And smidgeons

Of the vision

And ideal

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Everything is augury

But more important

Is to act here now

With everyone

Available

(don’t worry counting generations)

To build the present well

Into tomorrow

But crucially

The now

Into the work

The sense

The accomplishments

That make today

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Done writing

You’ve been on deck

You’ve five-sensed the pitch

Now batter up

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C L Couch

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