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"Thought I’d been through this
In 1919—"

Barcelona, Tokyo, Paris
Johannesburg—

"On the crest of a hill for all to see
God planted a Scarlet Maple Tree"

A zinc moon breaks
On small waves.

"Now she seems to be sand
Under his shoe
There’s nothing I can do"

My humans can’t see
Their own
Finite bodies
From the vantage of
The milky way

And what is the point
if the song is not
composed in joy?

--It’s too quiet in here.
--We’ll play Led Zeppelin for you next time.

"I wish death
But not just yet

I wish blue sky in the afternoon
Bigger windows & a panorama- light"

I wish for synchronicity
With the cycles of the earth

I wish truth

I wish greater cooperation
between women & men

I wish love
Without shame

Now when I think of love
I think of a hummingbird
Of a man, become warm
and blush

And even I
watch in awe
as he uses a frog
to catch a fish

“But these are spoiled children!”
said the woman
with a French accent.

“Serial enablers,”
said a man in back.

“Damn the eight o’clocks!”

“Follow the leader!”

Navaho codemakers
We demure

I wish understanding
Before dissolution into chaos

"She always sang there to purify
Not the desert always pure
But me of my corrupt furor"

I too wish an alternate form of justice

"I have come far enough
From where I was not before
To have seen the things
Looking in at me through the open door"

Approaching an anthem
why do I think of Yeats:

"Hearts with one purpose alone
Through summer and winter seem
Enchanted to a stone
To trouble the living stream.
The horse that comes from the road,
The rider, the birds that range
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
Minute by minute they change;
A shadow of cloud on the stream
Changes minute by minute;
A horse-hoof slides on the brim,
And a horse plashes within it;
The long-legged moor-hens dive,
And hens to moor-cocks call;
Minute to minute they live;
The stone's in the midst of all.

Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven's part, our part
To murmur name upon name,
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come
On limbs that had run wild.
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death;
Was it needless death after all?"

What did the chief of police say?
“I’m brave—I hold up in danger.”

What did the musician sing?

"Cut the kids in half
Cut the kids in half
Cut the kids in half

The lights are on but nobody's at home
Everybody wants to be a
Everyone wants to be a friend
Nobody wants to be a slave
Walking walking walking..."

What did Georgia say?
What did Gaea say?

Do what you will, man.
I will be here
When you are gone.