Note
Cain:

How many hours did they laugh together,
Than naught?

Forget this thought.

A round
Square.

A beauticians supply.

A single Crayola
Of no color
But friendship as it fades.

Sleep means Sleep
Where forfeiting
The Plague o' Plague

Let us not think
Of our

Mortality.

I listen to the fire
And the see
The blindness of man.

An eagle in free fall fornicating
Has more sense
Than we.

The most intelligent beings on earth
Without instinct.

Here we are,
Rings
Of a chain

Of a machine
Of a machine
Of a machine

We are too distracted

To see.

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Light is the greatest provider of hope
And

Hopeless dread.

To fail is to live another day

If one chooses.

Remember the dolphin.

They've always had a choice and,
They're still here.

the path today was
as its always been:

stone-spattered; dew-laden; voluptuous with
vultures and vermin and red foxes.

there were rocks in the shapes of hands
reaching out to the Pacific
in yearning or mourning or both
or neither.

maybe they were reaching
for nothing;
desiring nothing but to desire - no end game.

the path today was
as its always been:

a path to take and to admire.
the Pacific and its entrails, its beating blood and
its ***** hair lining walls of granite
that seemingly stretch north and south forever,
remind me of a universal reminder:

we are but guests here,
guests, in every end,

that should admire.

forgetting the nod of seals
the wave of kelp
the caress of fog and wind
the cajoling reeds in spin,
is to forfeit's one's present body's satisfaction.

the path today
was as its always been:

made of strangers and lovers,
brothers and kin.

I miss their noncommittal glances and their suspicion of me.
to be feared, in some way,
is to be recognized

of one's awful humanity.

then I think of their ankles
pressed against leather and grain
in pain; their breath bereft
of comfort - only starlight.

we are our ancestor's daydreams
wonderous fabrications of projections
too wild to materialize presently.

the path today was as it's always been.
the path today

was for them and

for nobody.