bridging

 We learn to do what we have to do to be able to

do what we desire and need to do --

that is life.

 

 

 

 

 

Learning, not trying --

going through the process

to know how rather than

merely making attempts.

 

 

 

It’s not that caucasian Americans without means

are privileged – it’s that we are unfairly advantaged

in many areas of socio-economic life.

“Privilege always felt like the wrong word --

more to evoke outrage than to explain the situation.

 

 

 

People too willfully ignorant to take care

of themselves ought not be making policy.

 

 

 

that word "economy" -- I don't think it means

what they think it means

 

Our economy is just all the transactions, the trading,

manufacturing, farming, building, every socially

manifested thing we do to take care of ourselves

and express our values

 

 

 

Back to basics

Back to ancient fables,

blood rituals,

terrible fate, utter surrender,

in ecstatic frenzy,

because, because, because – not

a fragile, precious human --

we can only be

as we believe

we are allowed.

 

 

 

What is this shadow play

we call our lives? Not who, how, why.

those imply full-fleshed stories;

clasping hands, dilating eyes,

the skin that binds us as kin or kindness;

slaps and hugs – miraculous touch

bridging connection, physical and

essential metaphor.

 

 

 

 

 

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