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Thursday, May 5, 2016

SOME EVEN RUN




Imaginary Garden With Real Toads










Somebody asked today
what I do with my time.
I said I pay bills.

That's takes up a good chunk of it.


Oh, and lots of walking

(mainly to take out the garbage).

Other than that it's

readin' and writin'
but very little arithmetic,
cuz I put 2 + 2 together
a long time ago and observed
that nothing comes out
exactly the way you're expecting.

Used to spend a lot of my time

tryin'to figure out why that was
but people would say: Why you standin'there scratchin'yo head all the time?
And I'd say oh, lice--and that left me with
a lot of free time to myself--
but still couldn't put my finger on it
other than each of us is just a half
lookin' for the other half,
instinctively knowing we were whole
before the Great Forgetting--
but once broken it's hard
to get those Humpty Dumpty
shards perfectly aligned again.

Best I can advise is

that at some point I will betray you.
Or you will betray me.
And we will either live with it
or we won't. Those who do
put on a brave face,
refusing to be broken.

Some of them even run for president.



18 comments:

  1. I refuse to be broken. you know dat ...Love, cat.

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  2. Love this, Tim. Wise and from the heart, too. Let's not be broken!

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    1. Thanks so much...we will not be broken...we will be the super glue that holds that holds the universe together..singing along with Elvis' "Stuck On You."

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  3. Sigh. Oh, yes, I know exactly what you are saying.

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  4. Two plus two equals tahw ?
    __I've heard "Corrective Rhetoric" and "Political Speechifying", and in my sallow mind, I sometimes believe tahw they say. As a for
    instance, if a runner says >it's Monday< I'll check all the information at my ready... and WOW, sometimes it's Monday. Well, at least once a week_!
    __The, "Great Forgetting." Smiles_! _m

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  5. Taiwanese American Heritage Week? I thought you were French!

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  6. The voice of experience speaking so eloquently! Nice job.
    Steve K.

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  7. Your poem made me laugh out loud -- but also stop a moment and sigh with the truth of it. Words well played. :-) Thanks for sharing.

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    1. So nice to hear...and thanks for visiting, Stacie!

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  8. No one has ever figured out how to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Once broken, start again working through the egg cartons:)

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  9. Wisely stated! (I've always wondered why, when I try to leave a comment on your blog, I get a "delivery failed" message--something about the server wouldn't accept it. Why do you think that is?)

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    1. I don't know. I got your last comment so what you are doing just keep doing it..The gremlins, maybe ?

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    2. Oh, that's good to know. Yeah, I'll keep doin it!

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  10. Very witty and quite thought provoking. I too laughed out loud at few spots.

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