Tuesday, May 6, 2008

It can only be borne

(if it's to be borne at all)
by refusing to see
or recognize
most of it.
It can only be borne
by living in a space
so tight
and sweetly-spirited
in its gentle obliviousness
that the rest of it
just rolls off of you
like a wave to which
you have
your back turned.
The mirage of right now
and the gameshow
of right here
help keep the idiot cruelty
hidden from our
wishful field of vision
and let us
believe that the knife edge
cannot find those
who refuse to acknowledge
its
existence.

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