we are not right
we think our needs will heal us
we think our wants will give us happiness
contentment is not chained
nor can it be gathered like any gathered thing
that is why it is contentment uncontainable
and we know this
we were born knowing this
and this is why we are what we are
yet we resist and we burn
to take daylight to a war or the moon
from a starry ocean night to a tomb
words thoughts ideals plans
brief as they are pretty as they are
saw the wide world & said they owned it
our mental defects
are so much lesser and poorer
than any deficiency we ever thought up
.
so the imperishable
comes back after much ruin and denial
untrampled by beginning middle and ending
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9/12/2010
for Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius
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