What God has ordained
can’t be avoided
We can’t see the marks
on people and places,
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Look, I'm quite happy
As an introverted, sloppy,
Creative, easygoing, poor,
Overweight, insecure misfit!
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This week he's hiding
under a blanket
when I come.
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That summer my second wife and I
lived on the state road in rural
North Carolina in the 6-room farmhouse
I got for $100 a month, amid
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Time, that relentless snail,
outpaces every cheetah,
crawls on toward the infinitely
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I got there strung out
on sleeplessness
and too much coffee.
I told him so,
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Snow of innocence, cover this fallen world.
Your blanket blots, in purifying white,
And blurs, our human legacies of blight.
Hail, flurry-flying flag of peace unfurled!
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In my 30's I wrote a book of poems
all about infinite possibility.
A friend's dad, a doctor,
read them and said:
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