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Yellow Near Animas, NM--Photo by Jen Pezzo

Yellow Near Animas, NM–Photo by Jen Pezzo

INVOICE

Hypothetically
if I wasn’t alone
I’d be home.
I’d enjoy the suspense
of an unfinished
ellipsis.

Presumably
misunderstanding is
unquantifiable.
In solitude
symmetry isn’t quite
attainable.

Ostensibly
human compatibilities
aren’t untenable.
Shopping for people
obviates monotony
— provisionally.

Apparently
isolation & solipsism
are mutual, universal.
Affiliations are,
however partial, proxied,
diagonal.

Supposedly
human mutual is
congenital, inexorable.
Unilateral is
anomaly, shopping
for impossible.

Hypothetically
if I wasn’t alone
I’d be tangible.
I’d enjoy contrapuntal
logistics of
volatility.

Will you?

~ Craig Kurtz

Preordination

Wings overlapped in
Symbolic agony writhe

In exchange for a blessed

Transformation spent in
The concern of strangers

KE

giving things away

getting my Thoreau on
growing my hair out
giving things away
that I do not need
give until
I am alone
with my thoughts
with my vision
and the world

sit on the grass
focus soft
gaze at the blades
the tiny flowers
the weeds

loafing
is a virtue, is a Universe
a day in the clouds
while still on the ground
I taste the sounds
that listen and give thought
to my satisfied
heart

~ marc mannheimer

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