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1. FACING GOLIATH
Like wound springs we wait inside a medic’s room
my dearest friend and lover sits upon the table
we do the ritual things we do
we laugh against doom
like David with his stone
we do the tiny things we’re able
2. THE SURGEON SAID
Some days I think
lies would serve us best
but this is just delusion
How could I choose
to twist what’s real
by wrenching my imagination;
isn’t that the definition of a fool?
Whatever it is it’s here,
deal with it
(the surgeon said sorry
the biopsy’s not clear)
3. THE CARDELAVEO ABYSS
Without you would be the
Cardelaveo Abyss
which is no place I know
or which even exists
unless by coincidence
because I just made it up
to convey the vast emptiness
I would know without you
4. WAKENING
….. –on being up in a 2 a.m. funk
What I was doing up
was being down
not in a dreadful sense
but in the way of anyone
suddenly too tuned to everyday events
once hidden in convenient clouds
but now laid bare
as an avacado pit
exposed in half a fruit
staring at the heart if it
and first time seeing it
from head to boot
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Jim Culleny
December 2007-January 2007
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