Monday, October 3, 2022

mendable

 i suppose i should
 fight fascism
 cure cancer
 or at least use my eyes
 mouth and hands and be kind
 to one who doesn't deserve it

 yet all i did today
 was calculate the distance
 from here to you and wonder
 what constellations would watch
 over us swimming through time
 going nowhere in particular

 the soft words and ghosts expelled
 won't serve any eschatology
 the records of this desire
 won't be stripped for parts
 in a banquet speech
 no one toasts to second chances

 yet nothing we do
 is ordinary
 against all unkind odds
 we are
 

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