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Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
Despair and desolation
Hello again, my friends
Or should I say, my enemies
I see you again

I wander lonely as a cloud
I'm tired of isolation
I remember just now Stockholm
I miss that little nation

And I remember Ireland
Dublin's pumping pubs
Fr. Greeley I spoke near Kells
(He was a fan of the Cubs)

Bangkok was a blast
Yesterday I ate gouda
In Thailand I ate som tam
And now, I invoke the Buddha.
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
When I heard the learned ethics professor
Proclaim "There are no moral facts"
Quickly I sat up, my ears attentive,
My mind focused and even frenzied.

I listened to him lecture, turned in my paper
And then walked into society
Where I gazed in perfect silence
At all of the passing people.
See Walt Whitman, "When I heard the learned astronomer" for background inspiration.
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
Relatively calm today
Cranberry juice and Sprite

English breakfast tea
Strawberries delight

Paul is Chinese and Catholic
We spoke the other night

He said there is a reason for us meeting
I hope that Paul is right
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
If Unitarians were to awaken after death and begin walking, when they came to a crossroads they would pause.

If they saw a sign with an arrow that read:

                  This way to Heaven

And another sign with an arrow pointing a different direction that read:

   This way for a discussion about whether
               or not there is a Heaven


They would follow the arrow to the
                          discussion.
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
Maybe take myself less seriously
My life is at times a joke

****** up philosophy student
A yoka yoka yoke

Now I'm 51
Family separation

Miss my three young sons
Every day. Dislocation.

Homeless men on Franklin Street
Now my closest friends

Heaven would be conversation
Conversation that never ends.
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
Conversation partner:  I am not a racist. I am not a white supremacist.

Cornel West: Brother, I have been fighting against white supremacy and racism every single day of my life since I first became aware of it when I was 7 years old. And I still got some white supremacy in me. So my guess is you probably got some work to do.
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
American Cosmic
Oxford U. Press

Oxford twilight
I was there. Impressed.

America now
In a serious mess

November election
Do our best.
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