Wednesday, January 31, 2024

OffDuty Shen Yun Dancer

I am perfect because I can see all this and forgive myself. I am perfect in this light and above this light my dance loves me. I am not bad. I am a rogue ant traveling soft white sheets––how comfortable they are to me! And I am the hero who squishes the ant with two sides of a circular cotton pad, discarded into a raw plastic trash can––tomorrow's dust.



I am perfect because I am human

All we know, all we can know

Is as human beings

I am not exempt from this fact


nor from you

We are at each other’s behest, you and us

Me and you know this all too well

But I know nothing


is something 

I know that I am not as bad as I think

I know this light voice and hand

These marks know me 

    

        as you

I’m grateful to the street signs for telling us where to go

When we are most lost and osmotically challenged.

I cry our tears and we all think about the time.

We get off at the wrong stop 

Misread all the signals

Forget memory

Dream about a limply bleeding tragedy


Use way too many words

Use the way two times so many curves

You say why do trines circumvent three birds


I know nothing as something

This alone 

Makes me perfect



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