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What don’t we know?

:- Doug.

Doctor, must I take that pill?

:- Doug.

Why can’t we take care of our elders the way we used to? Is it mistreating if we can’t afford our pills and so go without? Does one choice hasten death, or does the other stretch out our deaths? What would living look like? Do we have worse diseases than our grandparents, or more difficult caring? Or just more people who need our touch?

:- Doug.

After the ‘splaining’s done
Mystery draws us on

:- Doug.

Sometimes the role of the professional is to turn his or her economic gains to losses for the sake of the person in his or her care.

:- Doug.

Maybe not repairing the cosmos
restoring the garden at Eden
rather planting it for the first time

:- Doug.

My neighbor got out her
motorcycle this fine spring day
it’s not just the boys who have toys

:- Doug.

Maybe my contribution is to take this question of conversation deeper than ever before, fiercely chase it to feral unexplored lands where I might cease.

:- Doug.

Participate! Participate!
Dance to the
Light of the silvery
One

:- Doug.

Participation is conversation

:- Doug.

The gist of life
is to engage
to participate with

:- Doug.

If work is the only thing
you can think to do
how shackled!

:- Doug.

If money is the only thing
you can think to give away
how poor!

:- Doug.

Poetry’s higher
calling weaves our attention
bird taps our window

:- Doug.

Want to weave the larger, larger into my hours and minutes. Today I am a weaver.

The weaving is to bring my attention to the whole, the larger, larger. I am weaving my attention, ours. Let us attend, let us hear, let us be aware, conscious. Let us beknow, be alert.

:- Doug.

We cannot put conversation into words
Still, we can practice conversing

:- Doug.

We study and reflect on conversation
Learning to do it well
Should that be our goal?
Ought we have any goal
Or simply a practice?

:- Doug.

Our most human ability
Our vulnerability

:- Doug.

These writings are addressed to me.

:- Doug.

Yelling is a way of pouring
concrete around your
living ideas

:- Doug.

Turn to me
Your vulnerability

:- Doug.

Ancients divined answers
out of airy ether
we with our smart phones
out of the airwaves

:- Doug.

Let the bird
find its own perch
the new might not fit
the way you think
receive

:- Doug.