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yesterday;

yest is a teacher

that is best.

thank yest and

he will bring today.

welcome today

and you are royalty;

you are rich by another day.

yest will say:

Tell my friend Tomorrow that you

welcome whatever you do not know is coming.

By the day's end, you always become me;

more learned, more burned by the kiln, more wise.

Tomorrow (I call him Tom for short),

Tom will greet you with open arms.

:::

wish and hope to be a soul

that swims in salt water;

wish and hope with all in you

to be in that kind of water!

dream to inhale and exhale it someday.

fresh water dwellers look

for replenishment in saturated freshness;

those who swim in fresh water

seek healing outside themselves.

salt water fish have cried and tasted their tears;

on the palate of hopelessness

they, with their own tongues, tasted exaltation!

now they embrace pain,

for they know salt water heals wounds.

:::

 the one who wears black

has mourned the loss of his or her sense of self.

now, he or she searches

for another soul whom peers

under the bottom lip of a black umbrella.

at the Funeral of the Self,

he or she holds a black rose looking for another---

whom can smell its white fragrance.

:::

accompany the composer

who has lost his or her baton.

sit at your chair

and play the violin

and start on a silent cue.

let his or her ears

hear your music.

let the song

put a new melody

into his or her heart.

the composer,

under his or her power,

will find composure again;

     infant melody rising.

:::

Temple Grandin

made hugging machines for cows.

did these cows ever know

what a hug was before then?

how it feels?

how it feels?

a fraction-action that does this:

you see, you run, you give in and

BANG!

COLLISION WITH

THE ESSENCE!

SQUEEZING---

HOLDING TIGHT ONTO

A TOUCH OF

THE CELESTIAL CENTER

WITH ANOTHER---

"'I'M SAFE, WE'RE SAFE, WE'RE OK!"

AND THEN, you pull away

with remnants of bliss

you and the other person now share.

i wonder,

do those cows feel that?

:::

Shakespeare tagged life

with a single word;

tragedy plus time equals Comedy;

if you can laugh at bad things

that happen in your life,

the Theater will applaud you greatly.

:::

piano and forte;

listen to their love-making

by the fingers of the pianist:

p------p------pp------p------f------ff------fff

 elements of affect; faces of emotion

like that of legato and staccato,

watchwhile legatocurves andsways

throughandthrough upanddown

wavesofsea ebbandflow ofsound

and, then, it, breaks, in-to, some-thing, diff-er-ent,

stacc-a-a-a-a-to follows-in-the-line

back, to, back

onandoff

hard, and, soft

smoothandrough

sunandmoon

setting, and, storm

t-t-t-t-till the, end, of-it-all

whenall, is, over

allareseduced.