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<DIV>Thanks Jim, Very powerful poems. On the mark for today’s
anxieties.</DIV>
<DIV>Rod Rippel</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, January 29, 2017 7:05 AM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Oe List ...] Some poems</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>"TWO POEMS FROM THIS MORNING</DIV>
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<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>A Ritual to Read to Each Other" </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>by William Stafford</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature> </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>If you don't know the kind of person I am </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>and I don't know the kind of person you are </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>a pattern that others made may prevail in the</DIV>
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world </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>and following the wrong god home we may miss</DIV>
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our star.</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature> </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>For there is many a small betrayal in the mind,
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<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>sending with shouts the horrible errors of</DIV>
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childhood </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>storming out to play through the broken dike.</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature> </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>And as elephants parade holding each</DIV>
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elephant's tail, </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>but if one wanders the circus won't find the</DIV>
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park, </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty
</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature> </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>And so I appeal to a voice, to something</DIV>
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shadowy, </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>a remote important region in all who talk: </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>though we could fool each other, we should</DIV>
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consider—</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in
the</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>dark.</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature> </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>For it is important that awake people be awake,</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>or a breaking line may discourage them back to</DIV>
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sleep; </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>should be clear: the darkness around us is
deep.</DIV>
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<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>Deeply grateful to Helen Gerhardt for this:
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I know, I know</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>If you could go back you</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>would walk with Jesus</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>You would march with King</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>Maybe assassinate Hitler</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>At least hide Jews in your basement</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>It would all be clear to you</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>But people then, just like you</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>were baffled, had bills</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>to pay and children they didn’t</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>understand and they too</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>were so desperate for normalcy</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>they made anything normal</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>Even turning everything inside out</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>Even killing, and killing, and it’s easy</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>for turning the other cheek</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>to be looking the other way, for walking</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>to be talking, and they hid</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>in their houses</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>and watched it on television, when they had
television,</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>and wrung their hands</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>or didn’t, and your hands</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>are just like theirs. Lined, permeable,</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>small, and you</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>would follow Caesar, and quote McCarthy, and Hoover,
and you would want</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>to make Germany great again</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>Because you are afraid, and your</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>parents are sick, and your</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>job pays s@$t and where’s your</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>dignity? Just a little dignity and those kids sitting
down in the highway,</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>and chaining themselves to</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>buildings, what’s their f@*#king</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>problem? And that kid</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>That’s King. And this is Selma. And Berlin. And
Jerusalem. And now</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>is when they need you to be brave.</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>Now</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>is when we need you to go back</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>and forget everything you know</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>and give up the things you’re chained to</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>and make it look so easy in your</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>grandkids’ history books (they should still have
them, kinehora)</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>Now</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>is when it will all be clear to them.</DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>~Danny Bryck</DIV>
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<DIV>Jim Wiegel</DIV>
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