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Goals are established so we can forgo thinking.

:- Doug.

Conversation makes a goalite nervous
Possibilities multiply and run off
Circling, including, paradoxical

:- Doug.

Conversation: untamed, multi-personal, transforming language.

:- Doug.

Make conversation!

:- Doug.

Slogans are the small talk
of politicians and advertisers
bidding us to buy without thinking

:- Doug.

Small talk is comfortable to our society
(Increasingly not to me)
Increasingly taking us away
From getting good done
From productive conversings

:- Doug.

We cultivate the universe.

:- Doug.

Is your mind versatile?
Can you make a good turn?
Let us travel to Eutropelia.

:- Doug.

We have tried pushing away and putting away those who are angry, disaffected, living on our margins. To what effect? It only provokes, makes them hate. Maybe we could try finding out about them, hearing out them, bringing in them. This is scary because we may see the unfamiliar ones as familiar, may even question our ingrained thoughts. The danger: we may laugh. At ourselves.

:- Doug.

Conversing becomes poetic
Using dense words
And no words
Travels know woods
Tasting growing coulds
O how I love
Conversing growing poetic!

:- Doug.

A watched computer never progresses.

:- Doug.

We are not made up
of fingernails and
belly buttons
but they of us
in the same way God?]

:- Doug.

There is a question mark, written or not, in much of what I say.

:- Doug.

Five thousands of leaves
On this little maple!
How many and finely your receptors

:- Doug.

These ordinary people around us
here, in this place,
are richly complex, teeming

:- Doug.

Staying in the deeps: here there be life, here there be tunnels, currents, growing.

:- Doug.

Most do not see from larger
This will take patience long
And kindliness
Computers are fixed or replaced
Friends unfold

:- Doug.

The shell between us is thin
in places and thick
If it does not crack here….

:- Doug.

Can we imagine ourselves speaking from within the person we came to be?

:- Doug.

In a deeper sense
I see that givers do not gain
givers are given to a larger

:- Doug.

G in my yawning

:- Doug.

Story teller lives
on Wiifm Lane
next to mathematician
business ladder climber and ego
connector explainer
good this is for she
can see wholeness from there

:- Doug.

Deific the tunneling
holy the betweening
sacred the flowing

:- Doug.