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Daily Do Done Did Again
“Whatcha doin’?”
Walking the wheel.
“Why ya walkin’?”
Cuz that’s the deal.
This daily dance in the gravity well
you think perchance it’s our hell?
Do it once
do it twice
do it every day
for life
We work this walk till warp reweaves
our daily take on earth’s unease
There’s wheel involvement
weighing the waste
realignment
and training our taste
Till bitter wind of yesterday gone
it’s to us to right the wrongs
So dampen bile
share your light
smile that smile
defeat this tripe
Or grump and groan and beef and moan
and walk a harder tone
Do it for Mr. Rogers
do it for Dr. Seuss
do it cuz you oughter
do it for good use
– Smith, 2.16.2016
I told a Facebook friend his comments to me were essentially negative put downs.
He replied: Not meant as put downs. “Giving ’em a Neg”, a millennial tells me, is usually taken as a sign of friendly joshing.
Told him in this Donald Trump negative world, there was enough nastiness out there and that negativity was no longer hip.
Thanks to Lady K’s gentle heart, I’m being slowly weaned from verbal nastiness, which part of me views as unfortunate because I have such a sharp wicked tongue . . . but the hate and negativity I see before me ain’t good for my health. I’ve pretty much stopped posting anything political or nasty, though I do slip. Even my poems have become less negative. There’s enough nasty in the mix as it is.
So fuck the nasty, me be good.
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