The shaman’s
a scam and
the sandman
knows it!
Chagall 2016
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Here’s what we do
’cause we’ve got to get ready
Listen to propagandists less
for what they say and
more for what they don’t
They all purport a hale hello
but we all know
They really mean
goodbye
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She waits.
Starlight
appears
now. Then
she cries
softly
alone.
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Existence
is is-ism, isn’t
it?
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I am
in awe
of all.
I name
it God.
Now I’ve
lost the
wonder.
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Her soul
refrains the great
songs of her past lifetimes
she’ll rest complete, spent, the coda
a hush,
a poem
recited before the last fire,
upturned faces glowing
all fade away:
her time
© Carlos Chagall, 2013
Low-intensity
red stars
around us
everywhere
dim and unseen
The brightest
are fewer
but we see them
no matter how
far away
Yes they’re the first
to burn then fade
flickers at the rim
of time
Since Creation
there’s not
a smaller M-type star
that’s yet died
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She handed me an oar
pointing to the small dugout
there on the bank
Row briskly
downstream
warily
God is
real
Life is naught –
a dream
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I’ve quieted
my inner voice
by holding its head
underwater
an imaginary pond
there in the darkness
immersed until the bubbles
stop
till bright sun fills
the void to dry
up all the water
evaporates
leaves
no trace
behind
no evidence of voice simply
silence
only
now
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appear like droplets of mercury
the you at the door
one stands out, lush
the you now
appear to be smaller drops within
all is flux
begins a gradual
not the same final day
slide from the leaf
you know me then
simply changed place
there on the blades
of grass. Again, a single bead
where I’ve gone
but wonder
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