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Joanne KygerContemplative

I don't want to repeat the same mistakes over again, or the mistakes somebody else made just so I can have the experience of them. See, fucked up again. Live and learn. And off the excessive fondness for one's own self knowledge, untested, but reigning supreme. That leads me more astray, every day. What we commonly know in the air, in our dreams, what chooses continually & continually to grow, the obvious under our noses, is this life. Yearning in blindness. The weed has a name, is quite proud of itself, builds a community with other weeds, birds hop through. The imported domestic is a labor of love, but a labor, such a labor. At home here, no single thought is my thought. It whispers through the air in sweet misty fog, in bright sky blue.

Joanne Kyger
SourceLicence:Public domain (US, no notice)

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