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Conversation conceals itself in crevices and folds. Our work then is to wrinkle the wrinkles, increase the creases!

:- Doug.

What if we loved what we talked about?

:- Doug.

Art is a conversation.

:- Doug.

Life is an iatrogenic affliction.

:- Doug.

Conversation is a more immense world than we knew.

:- Doug.

I am weeding: bringing in the “weeds;” being unexpected and uninvited.

:- Doug.

I am not agnostic, I am aphasic: I don’t have the words.

:- Doug.

Shower yourself in questions.

:- Doug.

Let’s look at our Dozing Old Man: how he dreams he is awake, how he twitches and shakes!

:- Doug.

Let’s ask Donnie the Dozer.

:- Doug.

What did you find interesting the last half hour? OK, what could have been interesting?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2439

We need to have these meetings while we can.

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Purposes have many possible arrivals along a continuum; goals only one.

:- Doug.

He may be at war; we choose to be at peace.

:- Doug.

Keep writhing, poet.

:- Doug.

Nourished
Momentary beauty
Often disrupted

:- Doug.

Gardens regenerate
eyes don’t see
hearts take in

:- Doug.

Refuge regenerates.

:- Doug.

He is trying to sanitize us of our humanity.

:- Doug.

It’s about sensitizing conversation.

:- Doug.

It’s about the life of life
peeking out from conversation

:- Doug.

Subversive my songs
spinning under
your conversations from now

:- Doug.

Art is useless
not a hammer to sound
merely hand to catch tear

:- Doug.