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On Contemplating Aging

Happy not to 
highlight and dye
cover up my glorious silver strands 
but honestly I've been a little upset 
about how my curls are starting to fall flat
now that, that was just totallly unexpected, just as I perfected 
the art of self love, a new level of self-acceptance 
is all in my face?  & all around me 
seem to be annoying little 
references of "getting old" 
and yeah yeah yeah 
this is a part of life and we're wrapping up 
another decade of this whole new century 
of primitive problems but if we're about
evolution we'd better be creating a society 
where what's trending ceases to glorify 
youth and what fashion dictates
where we encourage aging artistically
be creative about it, as in original
make becoming ancient an art 
and the wisdom that comes with it, 
poetry.
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apron pockets

toni morrison
grace paley
alice munro
jotted notes on scraps of paper
stuck in apron pockets
built sentences
and stories
in their head
while pushing the pram to the park
or wiping the counter clean
they peeled layers off of children
and they kept digging
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The fragility of humanity in student #2

how do you help one student
who is trying to help
all the students around her
whose lives are falling apart
and helping them means
she’s not helping herself
and she’s distracted and grumpy and
you’re scared to approach her
but you can’t just ignore her
even if that’s the easier thing to do
how do you help
without feeling sad or grumpy or angry
yourself
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Pukka Pies

Gravy, junk of the soil,
pastry, of this world,
then if you try and keep it
it won't
just dust on the bones
of the catacomb.

I forced myself
to find complexity in the
blandess,
the northern bog-tainted,
peat of it all.

A tin of pineapples
meant the world,
a lava lamp play of
condensed milk,
peach liquor diffusion.

Celebrate the food,
celebrate the people,
a nation awakened,
against its worse judgement.
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P.S.

Promise you will think of me?
Even once, as you are
Going on your way as a
Gay Icon, and
Yet--

Should your consideration fall upon my
Hand, crossed over itself in
Anticipation of being known, and how and
When.
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