Will To Beast

We're all animals,

bags of water,

we should know better

than to take ourselves 

so seriously.

Seriously.

I could be writing in a

smoke filled jazz club

for all you know.

A young blond woman

helped an older Mexican

woman up some steps with 

a wheelchair...I said: "Nice girl",

she turned her head and smiled.

She didn't call me a misogynist

racist Nazi white 1%er who

should be beaten.....

I gave a nun a ride in a taxi

down the hill.

She didn't say

they were going to come for me.

She didn't say I might miss the

rapture or the second coming,

the one Mary always wanted.

She was a nice lady!

These common things happened

and they were extraordinary

if you've ever noticed precision

in these moments of your life...

meat work....survival..."getting

things done."