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look to see shadows
speak to hear echoes

:- Doug.

Old ones ought to be explorers
Why? Because we are less attached
to raising family, making a name
because we’d be good at exploring
Old lawyers ought to be poets
Because we’d be good at it
less attached
seeing wider and farther
having, no being, compassion
able to see
the special in the ordinary
the business of living
in the catastrophe of the day
Let us guess that our business
is to live through this catastrophe
maybe to envision some other side
some other possibility
something lifting up
woven and lasting

:- Doug.

For this half hour trip
you are invited
to lean back and permit
your analytical side to relax
your car driving side a vacation
take in sights sounds smells
you’d miss in ordinary days
in a word ponder
in a sense dream
so to rewrite yourself large
so to really notice the journey you’re on

:- Doug.

Allow your poetry to show you your precipice
Shout for it to leap up swallowing you

:- Doug.

Do you exist
Outside your writing?
Outside your mind?
Outside the person you
Construct day by day?

:- Doug.