CURRICULAR
Cartesian Slam
Mind: I think therefore I am
Flesh: I stink ergo sum
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Contra Socrates
the unexamined life
is also worth living
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To ground his earth-shaking numbers
Copernicus bid the sun
stand still
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Back to the Bodhi tree
dreaming of Buddha dreaming
world to word: Wake!
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EXTRACURRICULAR
Sleights of hand on paper
Deep-dyed color-fast gestures
taking time’s pulse
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Late life re-framed
as terminal illness: white-knuckled slide
to the cure
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Longing. How shyly
it beats in the inner ear:
tacit tinnitus
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When they ask
Did that really happen? I will say
In my poem it did.
