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Apr 2017
it cannot be.  

be, being  an interesting conception
today it
be
a proscriptive,
a prohibitive
status,
painful be this being.

when the only adjective suitable is
utter
as in total and complete and
life's every non-random gesture slaps you into a
religious silence of no utterance
and being or is,
just intolerable,
just cannot be,

and the answer is both
for the sole question which is,
which is worse,
the silence of the pain
or the emission of the howl
the utter of being
is not merely intolerable
but is inconceivable
Written by
Nat Lipstadt  M/nyc
(M/nyc)   
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