Patti Masterman Poems

In falling worlds I shudder,
Twitch and grimace
Shoved first this way, and that
By fate, by momentum
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Could be that the true soul
Is stretched tautly thin
Throughout the hidden world-
Thinner than a quark crepe,
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The rocket went off like a bat out of
Pell-mell, it ricocheted, son of a
Ditched the boosters to head for the blue
Another fudruckers going straight to heaven
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A Nony Mouse I be
My tail is most of me
I run about the house, I creep
I only come out when others sleep
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Don't be jealous what others have written
In their own frame and time of season
They are there in the place they've awoken
To write down words gleaned from their reason
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Be dauntless, though the world has knives-
And you have but a single life.

Be brave, though some are braver still-
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White feathers falling,
When an angel flew close by;
There's nothing up above us,
But I saw him, on the sly.
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It's a funny thing isn't it, how you're all over the place,
When you say, that you're just trying to find yourself;
While realizing, that maybe you don't want to be any place at all,
And don't really want to be found.
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She's imprisoned your soul: never doubt it,
And all you can think now, is about it:
By neglecting the most basic need of body
While she's high above it, so haughty;
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Sometimes wind moves in secret
Like a lover or a moon
Sometimes a board will answer
Or a shutter or a loon
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