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put in place by the state‘for our protection’become the apparatusof a repressive andtotalitarian state?‘Oh it can’t happen here, we’re a free country’…but children never know the experience oftheir parents’ lost inner freedoms of the mind.How long?Start counting
When you re-ad alou-d your ow-n po-ems –
lingering on every no-un, ad-jective and ad-verbas if they are simultaneously ancient jewelsthat you’re touching, showing to us; and yetnew jewels you’re yourself in wonder at…clothing e-ach w-ord with the sc-entof peat fire, soda bread, a glowing hearth;a child asleep there in the corner;a woman who’s grown rich, timeless in your love;outside the cry of…
We got a new class teacher this fall.
on account of he’s highly ‘qualified’. Guess that meanshe gets paid more. So he’s the oneshould be grateful. In my experiencewhich don’t hold for muchbut which ain’t nothing neitherways:life out here don’t pay much heedto paper ‘qualifications’.Now, ‘qualified’ is somethingof another colour altogether. That’s earnedwith a diff’rent sort of paper.We’ll see.
She sat alone in the bus shelter
between the fingers of each handand singing quietly to herselfeverything I doI do because of you
(said to have been found on a Sumerian clay tablet)
have sanctioned this,had I known about it…Right now, I’m lookingfor a fall guywho didn’t carrya voice recorder..’
The inner magnet sings
Some traditions say, thatwe all have an inner sound; whichwe can train; or can leave it be..as gold for Midas; Midas, so, for gold;and this, it’s said, calls pupil to their teacher;teacher to their pupil; it isthat yearning to know morethat draws the two to unity;anmd so the holy menshow no surprise to see you…