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Sloan Bashinsky's avatar

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Amazing

I'm still here

Good thing

couldn't see the future,

I might have freaked out,

run away,

leaped off a high building

into a volcano

or a tornado

or maybe a electric grid

or nuclear reactor

or tsunami

or a glacier

or a star

yea, even a black hole,

all of which I did anyway.

How many different lives

in one?

Let me count.

if I can.

pre school,

elementary school,

college,

law school,

working for my father,

practicing law,

becoming a writer,

becoming a poet,

becoming a mystic,

8 women close to me

saw parts of it,

8 entirey different lives.

with entirely different

remarkable women,

not easy for them

being with me,

wasn't easy for me

being with me,

then came #9

I was out to pasture

she had other plans,

and spells,

she's a witch,

who'd have ever thunk?

weaving, weaving, weaving,

waking up parts of me

I had lost, forgotten, thrown away,

or never even knew where there,

like my writings and poems

and soul drawings had done,

still sometimes do.

I was praying for the Lord to take me,

my star had run its course,

she has other plans,

I quit making plans long ago,

tired of God laughing at me,

but now I look forward to

waking up mornings,

she did that,

she does that,

and neither of us

can go to sleep at night,

until she rubs my back,

conks us both out,

zzzzz

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Su Terry's avatar

Ted Hughes is an underrated poet, thanks for posting this.

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