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Rebel at my age?

:- Doug.

Future Sense

:- Doug.

Spectator sports—particularly the violent ones like football—in their lack during covid may have contributed to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol because they were an outlet for people in the stands to exercise their tribal adventurousness on a regular basis.

:- Doug.

percussion concussion discussion
gentle please shh

:- Doug.

Each human is formed
in music
wordlessly
from eons
hear this one

:- Doug.

I intervene!

:- Doug.

Elders are permitted
to intervene

:- Doug.

Voiceless in two or eleven
generations
could we
some of us
speak for real people
these
wanting to shout?

:- Doug.

God at my feet
in touch of fabric on toe
upward press of bed on my leg
subtle rhythmic punching inside my chest
little unnoticed ways alive

:- Doug.

After covid
back to normal’s not for me
we can be, better

:- Doug.

Playful the poet
turning ear downside up
better: startled
by an ear running off
on its own way-words

:- Doug.

Make yourself of use
to the grandchildren
artfully artfully
with joy
with fixation

:- Doug.

Imagine future ancestors

:- Doug.

Ancestors united
their idiom poetic

:- Doug.

Poetry
ancestor activism

:- Doug.

Imagine Futures

:- Doug.

Do what you love—whatever it is, it will inspire grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Come live in the Long Now and Big Hear.

:- Doug.

Hope is invalid when it does not generate work.

:- Doug.

Are you the acting we think makes the play?

:- Doug.

Do what good we can, have eyes on the grandchildren, all the while knowing we are in the middle act of a tragedy, or at all events, an epic with an ending. We may even be close enough to catch hints of the possible end of the thread.

:- Doug.

How to not be uptight about humanity’s future.

:- Doug.

Think beyond the future of humanity.

:- Doug.