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From twenty past four this morning
Instantly aware! For two hours:
Fire! Fire! Fire!

:- Doug.

A bird is a triangle
viewed from here.

:- Doug.

Each thing we create can be turned against us, harm us, even kill us. No matter whether algorithm, corporation, machine, house, baby, or conversation. Fear not. What makes us safe are continual creativity, opening awareness, and lovingkindness toward each and every. So bring on your learning computers.

:- Doug.

Mr. P, I’m sorry that the world is racing ahead of you, that you want to turn it back, slow it down, have it be understandable again. The voices! The languages! The words! How they must spin for you. They come at you! You want to slow them. Stop them.

:- Doug.

How do we know what green looks like to another person?
By conversing.
And how do we know by conversing?
By how it feels, sir,
By how it feels.

:- Doug.

Explain it I will
not. I can
not.

:- Doug.

Our friend is a maze
Our consciousness a conundrum
Our conversation an overlay of labyrinths

Playfully go
Everywhere a surprise!

:- Doug.

What are the ingredients that go into making that batch of cookies? Is there also an art to the making: and to the savoring?

:- Doug.

Even a butcher does not use a chainsaw.

:- Doug.

Seer is a risk.

:- Doug.

Every flower and bud adds to the bouquet.

:- Doug.

Spirit’s world isn’t that
simple. Spirit . . . .

:- Doug.

I used to say I don’t
like surprises but now
I write poems most days

:- Doug.

What is both
wave and particle?
Time is, too

:- Doug.

Persons mix and melt
before you catch them
they morph

:- Doug.

I use etymology
not to prove a point
but as seeds to imagining

:- Doug.

We can know
a people.
A person confounds.

:- Doug.

We cannot have
this person whole
we can hold
this moment of being
and this

:- Doug.

No, Canada will not become the fifty-first state. It’s looking like we will become the twenty-second republic of Russia.

:- Doug.

Maybe this chapter is the major.

:- Doug.

The one
who needs you
you need
and
the one
who needs you not
you need

:- Doug.

Can we accept the adventure in not knowing, in night, in thousands of flakes making one snow burying us?

:- Doug.

We are drawing one another.

:- Doug.