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Cut short by one syllable
It's incautious to snort
Hell's Angel's bathtub speed
without health insurance
off of white porcelain.
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A kid doesn’t know any better
Con/Jur/d 7/31/2020
Dust motes in a seasonless
Room rest without effort in
A single ray of sunlight
Motionless-swirling captured.
a gentle tapping
Con/Jur/d 8/3/20
A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream, I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from the outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata), which, contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt the urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment. I must admit that nothing like it ever happened to me before or since
Synchronicity: An Acasual Principle (1952)
The Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Paragraph 843
Princeton University Press Edition.
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A ‘Real’ Human Moment
Con/Jur/d 10/14/2018
“Everything is mediated!”
He complains.
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And I agree.
As you do,
when it’s
down to two --
inevitably the story of being
alone in the wild,
on an island
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and the Loons
who told him
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“It’s OK to be here.”
Water and safe-
places World
as Sanctuary
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And the inevitable
“A real Buddhist moment.”
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and I’m like, “Why?
Why not Human?”
I do it too
Steal stories,
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make them my own --
looking through their lenses
I know (When switching
glasses, dizziness is a
visceral ground. Forget
debates on what color,
the architecture
of prescription
is more direct.)
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they’re refined sure, sure,
and so much more than
diagnostics statistics favorite
books and movies experiments
gone awry, there are motions
we share, maybe every damn one?
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Stages, developments, progress
with and without a manual
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some story about healing
And that time when I met
The Big J (or Y) and I
skipped the line while they
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said words about
being saved and their
savings account being tallied
and the tellers
(Who all looked like P
but don’t tell him,
I mean with THAT Ego of hers)
waved me past the genuflects
the accounting, the bloody knees and the
“Weep if you’ve got ‘em,” hallelujahs,
because after all a cubit
changes depending on the Throne.
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The important bit is
I got kicked out!
If you can believe it?
Kicked out because
I said (while being rendered)
“Human.” Just that.
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And back to the Loons
and the time alone
Remember?
‘Til next time see you around the Corona Duck!
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