8142. PUTTING THIS LONGBOAT TO SEA

PUTTING THIS 

LONGBOAT TO SEA

We may rationalize and we may label,

but that goes only so far. There is the

abridgement of time that goes with

our genes, as we telescope our world

into fittable theory. It's backwards, 

but it all works.

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Here, here, I don't want to glamorize

what isn't so. Dreary times abound, that

leitmotif of mothers and sons, doctors 

and daughters, hikers, and taxicab men.

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I can see the truck driver loading his 

own freight on the morning after a drunk.

With a pounding head, he mutters, 'never

again, never again.' He's wearing a watch;

'yes', he says, 'yes I am, though I now

forget why.'