Tag: the one and the many

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I’d like to thank the world and its individuals for all their apologies,
And wish we didn’t act in ways requiring apologies. 

I wish I’d sent more apologies—
also better apologies—
but not to who you’d think.

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Recently I saw a video of a CEO sneaking up into meetings,
Checking whether everyone was “being kind.”
You should have seen them jump.

In the state of New York, while driving a vehicle,
It is simply illegal to change lanes without signaling prior. 

I wish for other enforced kindnesses,
so that everyone got brainwashed in its favor.

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Modern trappings bloomed beyond beyond
Beyond the olde steely, brute utility
into something more natural: cancer.

I wish every In-di-vid-u-al to know
That they are a global cure. 
I wish that the problem of the one and the many 
was finally no problem at all. 

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I wish that everyone had invitations to The Ball—
And would know couture and imbibe it all—
But decide instead on the local good,
a quiet exit, the grace of gravity and the moon and its cavities.

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I wish to wish for more than I do now.
Enough has always been enough,
But I’m becoming more. 

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A moment or a memory 
Will never have care for you.
It’s better to be gentle
between us, as only humans can do.