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Play is doing a specific set of things, essential to life. Fun likewise. But not entirely the same things. And conversation as well, and somehow more close to life itself. One day I . . . .

:- Doug.

Play for play’s sake
Fun for fun’s sake
Conversation for conversation’s sake

:- Doug.

Unforeseen, conversation seizes us.

:- Doug.

I hold up a filter
world, flow through
conversation sized holes

:- Doug.

Bludgeon politics is what we have. Is it what we—all of us—want? Is there anything all of us want? Or is a we no longer possible?

:- Doug.

If you go to college you are investing your life—years of it—to make better life for the rest of us. If you go to conversation, you are investing your life–an hour or two of it—to benefit this other and more of us.

:- Doug.

Trying I’ve been to equate play and conversation, improv and conversation, and they just won’t sing.

:- Doug.

mosaic biologic we
symbiosis here for now
meeting meeting what can be?

:- Doug.

Each conversation
a kitten tripping, falling
in that, a blessing

:- Doug.

Life
the poem
that must
be sung
to one another

:- Doug.

The really profound can start off feeling ordinary, drear, and dull. Only years or days later do we get to realize.

:- Doug.

Create proverbs together.

:- Doug.

In conversation we have the opportunity to be a translator for another—her un-heard, un-recognized language into something she now can hear, maybe act upon. We can illuminate for her.

:- Doug.

Conversing brings forth spiritual artistry.

:- Doug.

I converse to find awe in you…knowing it is there.

:- Doug.

Our friend
in conversation
shows us ourselves

:- Doug.

A conversation is a sabbath in our lives.

:- Doug.

Our lives spiral out
beyond way beyond great
toward vast

:- Doug.

To see anew we must change the place from which we look. Then we soon come back, carrying a new set of eye mirrors.

:- Doug.

What we don’t know about conversation is what we don’t know about each other.

:- Doug.

The centerpiece of our conversation is the unknown; and this in one another and our vastness and wonder.

:- Doug.

There is in walking together a shared physiology.

:- Doug.

There is to be found, even in short conversations, a shiver.

:- Doug.