First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the labor leaders, but I did not speak out because I was not a unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
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You taught me insecurity
against a rainfall sweet
and mesmerizing
to be afraid of myself
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you were always a queer little boy
I mean that in the archaic sense of
my own historical lexicon meaning
unique different extra-ordinary the
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Hawking says it begins this way
a thought expressing itself in the
darkness of nothing: 'no thing'
and then exploding itself across the vast expanse of time
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The rafters burn last
but they also burn hottest
their brittle and aged supports
old couplets stored for
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I wish you
had seen the flurry of orange carpet take flight
drifting a lazy smoke of Sulphur Moths
twirling a slow motion whirling dervish
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Did you know we are the only species
on the planet
Whose total extinction would actually
Benefit every other species?
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She asked me if I was a government agent
I was taken aback by that
I mean how do you answer a question like that?
Truthfully?
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We don’t sell our bodies to the highest
Or only bidder to feed children
We don’t feed the children
We feed our need
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Government cheese don’t melt
the trick is to slice it up in little matchstick pieces
then chop those up into little bits
the cubes mix with watery macaroni
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