Re: your not existing has little to do with your failure to exist

[Thomas savage]

I like this poem although I don't see what it has to do with existing or failing to exist, an issue about which Buddhists have a paradoxical response, namely, you both exist and do not exist.

Sheila Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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as your sponsor I have ordered a spondee for us to share

 

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the window we look through together has become a form of scenery that works in two ways

 

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shepherds may have seemed relaxed from this distance of a prior future

 

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taken for granted and in aggregate the lymph nodes resist emergence of (un)familiar battles

 

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whining once confused with music came to embrace quarter tones where quarter horses had raced in search of a pacific state

 

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matrilinearity purported to relinquish differently proposed fatestreams

 

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whose icicles are these diminshing constructions

 

sheila e. murphy

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