Could Love Be Called Open Heart Surgery?*
May your ruins bear flowers.
There seems to be more light everywhere now.
Is decapitated Mickey the dark we discard?
Dark and light are or could be a duality
They transcend themselves.
Forfeit the game if it seems to reject you
And it dissolves before your newly-opened eyes.
If harmony seems to exist
Everywhere outside you,
Invite it in and see
As well as hear what happens.
Procrastination doesn't work
In energy as well as time.
Poses fixed in stone
Disintegrate as peace advances.
There is no such place as the self.
But it both exists and doesn't anyway.
"Enslavement is permitted
As a punishment for crime."
Don't blow up to!
o many
plants or flowers.
As usual and always before,
This country needs to become.
Tom Savage
11/18/05
*Written at Ron Silliman and David Shapiro's reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York City
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