talking
all morning
about silly business ideas
singing
all evening
about higher stakes lives
than our
own
talking
all morning
about silly business ideas
singing
all evening
about higher stakes lives
than our
own
when i think of an elephant, i see giant gentleness, i hear the stomps of their feet and the flapping of their ears, and i feel a sense of peace and safety
~~~
when i think of an elephant, i see mammoth past, i hear calls for connection for the present, i feel uncertainty for a future for them all
~~~
when i think of an elephant, i see a being, i hear a whole herd, i feel the lifetimes of their ancestors and descendants all around me
~~~
rsvp to The Elephant Play here
an educated populace
is a dangerous populace
to the folks in charge
who gain
with everyone else’s
losses
i’m just writing words
and the minute i move on
to the next line, the words above
seem to fade from my mind
immediately
i wonder if this is going to be
simply the state of
today
how
and why
and when
and why do i just want
another cup of coffee
to just chill with
observing humanity
in an emergency
department
[but i should probably be
eating some sort of snack
to make my own humanity
a little bit
even-er]
here we are
working[auditioning]actor
less time for
writing
more time for
figuring out
[im]perfectionism
letting myself
not see signs
everywhere
[in a life
absolutely inundated
with overwhelming coincidence]
trying to writing
to finish the thinking
to begin the day
and continuing
and continuing
starting
from finishing
from ending —
a beginning