Category: acceptance
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Not if, but when
too intent on not dying we do not live death examine etchings on walls of passage gouges and scratches on exit door frame stop, carve your initials with X’s and O’s turn the handle and pass through 9-22-20
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Who our Mother was
On this day after Mothers Day I remember how a couple of years before mom died my siblings almost killed her They hired a cleaning lady to come once a week to clean my parents’ house and mom exhausted herself Moving the refrigerator and furniture to sweep climbing on a step stool to dust getting…
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Green tea
You sip green tea with lemon and ginger read a bit – listen to the world outside your porch A young dude shows up at 9 a.m. to shoot baskets in the park turns his music up real loud and proceeds to work on his game You don’t care, if his playlist is dope don’t…
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Muddling
You were not certified to be born to nurse to be a child or an adolescent set adrift in hormonal seas You were not trained to be a friend to love to be a parent or a partner in this thing called life You were not prepared to be quarantined for COVID-19 but somehow we…
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meditations for a grey day
Somewhere someone is marrying birthing graduating retiring dying mourning celebrating So have a Happy, Sad, Joyous, Sorrowful, Melodramatic, Laughing, Crying, Up or Down, in a Fucking Funk Fun Day! 3-5-20 (music of Richard & Mimi Farina in background…)
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Collecting sea shells
on this last day of 2019 be kind to yourself and remember: sixty percent of who you are will slake your thirst wash you clean or drown you if you let it love yourself and the briny sea that laps your feet within you is an ocean with sand shimmering on the shore awaiting the…
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12/14
weekend roof rain rattle gutter pipe gurgle wet tire distant drone too wet for birds mantra it’s okay, go back to sleep 12-14-19
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Amplified
(This is for all the poets, singers, dancers, actors, artists and mimes who step beyond their comfort zones and share) This is not rocket science you’ve been preparing for this all your life Remove your exterior gown sit naked at the dressing table turn it inside out Examine the weave of cloth the stitching that…
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