Why Isn't It All More Marked
Why isn't it all
more marked,
why isn't every wall
graffitied, every park tree
stripped like the
stark limbs
in the house of
the chimpanzees?
Why is there bark
left? Why do people
cling to their
shortening shrifts
like rafts? So
silent.
Not why people are;
why not more violent?
We must be
so absorbent.
We must be
almost crystals,
almost all some
neutralizing chemical
that really does
clarify and bring peace,
take black sorrow
and make surcease.
Kay Ryan
Wow. This is fabulous. I think she's right. And some of us (you) are better than others at turning it all in to something good.
ReplyDeleteI love this. This is how I feel deep down.
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