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Guru Allergy
When a guru tells methe things he says he sees,it’s like a pile of pollenthat makes me have to sneeze. When a guru tells methe things he says he knows,I need to blow my mindas if it were my nose… … Continue reading
Compassion Sandwiches*
You learned to loathe yourself as worthless wretch,despicable without a bearded god,and chased approval like a dog at fetch,except it was no fun as you were flawed. You didn’t learn to love yourself but waitedfor love to fall from heaven … Continue reading
Tunnel Candle
Within a pitch-black tunnel shone a candle, and you saw it and ran to it from far, from feeling it would be a way to handle the dark in which you took it as a star. When reaching it, you … Continue reading
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Rooted
An old tree’s stuck where it has grown, and I feel stuck as well though in a different way than it who reaches slowly toward the sky, from just one place to drink each solar ray. I’m stuck not in … Continue reading
Karaoke Request
for Miriam The song you wished to sing was “Crucify” written by a singer known as Tori, a song in which she asks the question why we crucify—not in a way that’s gory— but in a way that’s hidden—in our … Continue reading
Realization
For Rachel Lindsay You took your woes and made a masterpiece, and though this didn’t take the woes away, it gives to others great delight and peace in facing their own woes in their own way. Like you, I’ve hidden … Continue reading
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Advisers
We love to tell each other what to do and offer, like a treasure, our advice, or talk about our elevated view that, unlike any other, should suffice to tell a person where they are and where they’ve been and … Continue reading
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Self Time-lapse
Are you the one you were when you were young, or are you someone different than you were; your selves like beads upon a necklace strung, with some more colorful, that you prefer? Are you the one you see who’s … Continue reading
Wombs
The time that I was in my mother’s womb has long since washed away from memory, but I was woven there as on a loom till when it had become too small for me. Now I am living in a … Continue reading
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Snapshot Couplets 