AD.

Philosophy 152

You know you are doing something right
when the purring gets louder

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Philosophy 153

Fire, bone music, stories
the whence from which we came

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Philosophy 154

We wake in pain
to feathered flesh
that never will arrive

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Philosophy 155

Man is a pile of dirt minus one rib,
a sloppy eater that needs a bib,
a hunk of meat devouring itself,
mostly lower shelf.

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Philosophy 156

Sometimes look in the word bucket
and it’s empty
sometimes full but all messed up

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Philosophy 157

It’s the process
not the end point
that’s the point

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Philosophy 158

Do what you can
with what you get

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Philosophy 159

It’s all fluid
a big flexible water whorl weighed with hook
and bite of tooth and claw

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Philosophy 160

The face in the mask is
alas
peeking through

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Philosophy 161

Whatever the while
Do your best
And offer a smile
To prime the rest

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Philosophy 162

Well crack my bred
spread my jam
in this jelly place of am

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Philosophy 163

Wrinkles are the face’s wealth
we iz what we iz and that’s all yam am.

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Philosophy 164

Drink my tea, smoke my dope
Shuck this patriarchal collar rope
Get to work on help and hope

– Smith, 8.29.2017

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