(x = space)

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This Is What We Want

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We want to wake up

Waking’s good

We want to have breakfast

Something to break the fast

Of sleeping

We want to move

To greet each other

Gauge each other

And the day

And then move into it

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We want work

And decent ways to get there

We want safety

Of our bodies

Our workplace identities

Our spirits

For the labor

With nodding toward

Our dreams and aspirations

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We want lunch

We want to like it

Maybe enjoy

The company

Or it need be

(or preferred)

Dine alone

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We want an afternoon

For work

And then for something grounded

Afterschool

A time to leave

For home

For family

For snacks

For play

And then our evening lives

Meetings or more work

(homework)

Or movies

And more snacks

Then ease into

It’s over

This day

For sleep and readiness

For next

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All the mitigation

Third shift

Or farms

Demanding seasons

Training

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Sickness

The things that shift in life

The ones we knew

Whose company

We no longer have

Aging

Anyway

And all that comes

With final dreams

Allowable inside

Three score and ten

And in society

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We want this life

We want today

Into tomorrow

And yesterday

In part

At least

For fond remembering

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Such a life

Should be supportable

This should be our culture

And our lives together

More as God allows

Or might demand

Of prophets

Or of mystics

Though we get to keep

The quotidia

We should have

From the beginning

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And allowances

Yes

Of course

Allowances

Curies

Heyerdahls

Should have their way

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C L Couch

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