What about a Man?

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Bronze sculpture, Native American, NC Arboretum near Asheville

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What about a Man?—

—an educated man, many millions
of words filtered down his decades,
his ‘little grey cells’ storing countless
fragmented files of data random facts
too many layers of memory and experience
to remember: the swarmy, mother soup
of endless troubling and exhilarating thoughts—
practical, spiritual, scientific, artistic, technical,
political, social, (not to mention fantasies and fears)

wishing sometimes

he had the simple presence of being
the stillness, the care-less contentedness
of a fat spring toad by a dark pond
basking in the warm spring sun?

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