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<DIV>Love it, Jim. Thanks.</DIV>
<DIV>Jann</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 5/21/2012 11:10:50 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
jfwiegel@yahoo.com writes:</DIV>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Found
this poem in the waiting area at the Episcopal Diocese office here in
Arizona. Somehow it relates to this topic.</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><BR></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>To My
Medial Prefrontal Cortex</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal>Isabel Galbraith</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal> </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal>People who have positive illusions are less likely to be
depressed. . . . There are risks, however, in maintaining illusions that
are too out of whack.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>–
Timothy D, Wilson</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal> </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>When
I first heard of you, my scout,</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal>Spinning, glossing, scrubbing out</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Harsh
facts about myself—the grout</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>And plaque of melancholy—</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I
welcomed you, my little sprout </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Of
green and glossy holly.</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal> </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal>Within your songs, you troubadour, </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I'm
Mark Twain, not James Fennimore,</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal>Kristin Wig, not Drew Barrymore,</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal>Marley, not Cheech or Chong;</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I’m
touchable waves, not pompadour, </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal>Bikini, not sarong.</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal> </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>But
now I know you’re there I’m scared.</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>What
buried thoughts have not been bared?</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>What
temporary awarenesses aired</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Then were shut up in their towers?</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I
don’t want to be unprepared</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>For life’s cold thundershowers.</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal> </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>So
don’t puff me up to astronaut, </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Or
Guinevere of Camelot, </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Or
world’s best boss, Sir Michael Scott—</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>The let-down’s suicidal</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>As
Dangle and his banjo not</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Making American Idol.</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal> </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>And
so, tonight, I try to view</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal>Myself as all outsiders do.</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I
shut you off; now I’m see-through</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>As a window in the dark,</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>And
in the mirror I’m 32</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>And what is soft is stark:</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal> </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Dumb
jokes my friends indulge me in, </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>New
wrinkles in my oily skin, </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">joie de vivre</I> that I trade
in</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>For grouchiness at home,</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Lost
time that I could have spent</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Working on a poem, </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal> </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Dumb
poems about the slightest things,</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>A pen
that’s lost and long-lost flings –</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>They
hurt, but what really stings</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Is when I add it up:</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>No
roommates and no wedding ring,</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>No money, book, or cup. . . . </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal> </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I’m
definitely glad you’re there, </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal>Protecting me from this despair,</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The
bruises my ego would otherwise wear,</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Believing it deserved them.</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You
help me function, help me dare, </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Steel nerves when life unnerves them.</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal> </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The
trouble is, we must – like flowers –</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal>Receive the right amount of showers</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>And
sun to pull new blooms from bowers.</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>To help us be us</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The
inner eye’s more sweet than sour:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"
class=MsoNormal>Ourselves as loved ones see
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