Friday, April 28, 2023

megamarathon landscape

 

guns don't make us safer

they make us stupider, cockier,

less focused on what can be done

within the circumstance

 

 

 

 

people seem to think “governments” are

autonomous machines

it’s not “government”, it’s people

who hate people

 

 

 

what we all need is to break out of

our socially induced trance and

deal with reality as it presents

 

 

 

 

I have been formed

living in a woman's body

within this social world.

 

 

 

Ultimately, if we are

anyone at all

we create our own identity.

 

 

 

That tree suddenly green

Winter's comforts, not yet laid away,

apparently abandoned.

Wafting into later sunset,

gentle lights, evening dreaming.

Let all meanness, dread, drift away,

sift away from this conscious stream

slipping toward uplifting.

 

 

 

The human race is a

megamarathon -- a

journey, not a destination.

 

 

 

The only experience I know

is my own.

 

 

 

The creation of friendship

getting to know one another

becoming familiar

 

 

 

People with the audacious arrogance

to speak/act hurtfully against people

who they deem not up to their standards

ought be held to better standards

that preclude hurting people.

 

 

 

Insisting that governments ban abortion

is a clear indication that you believe

women are not and ought not be

treated as fully human.

 

 

 

4/16-28/23

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