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We Were Not Meant for This

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A Form of Going

We all bow our heads.

We whisper gone.

What does that even mean?

Gone is just another form of going.

When I say—

When you say—

When we all say gone

what are we really trying to say?

Like the way we quietly ache and hold each other tighter,

wondering how to get that much love again,

crying tears and shaking heads and breaking hearts,

weeping, “There’s a part of me that’s gone.”

Or like the way I had all of these great things worth saying

if I’d just not realized how little

I suddenly knew about life and

had to confess, “Everything I thought I knew is gone.”

Gone is just another form of going.

Like the way she leapt right out of her cancer

and danced away peeking over her shoulder,

saying, “I’m so much going I’m gone.”

Like the way her three-year-old daughter,

her brother, her father, her mother,

or my best friend—her husband, held her breathless body

and said, “All that pain is gone.”

Like the way we tear at the starless night,

and rage mad as wolves

until the dawn breaking leaves us chorusing,

“All that darkness gone.”

That’s what we say.

That’s what we pray.

That’s the force that lifts our faces

to shine, love, count graces.

When we all say—

When you say—

When I say gone

I’m really saying, “I’m bound to catch up eventually.”

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Sometimes I write in madness—or, more aptly stated—it writes me. It writes me wild. It seeps inward and poisons my veins like jungle fever. It courses through me and sends me tearing off through the jungle, this way and that, never really in any direction that I can say I know. But it takes me and I follow.

No doubt about it.

Sometimes I write in this mad, raging way. I never stop to forge tools or adobe homes or social networks. I simply rage my way through my own obscurity. Nobody even knows that I am writing. But I am here. Writing.

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Marry Me

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If you’re still wondering what it is, the image blends the face of a woman with the title of the book, the letters of which are shaped by the outline of the continental United States. Here are some other ideas that also made or made alternate cuts.

Merika, Love Poems–with its iconic image–is now available in the online store in a variety of formats.

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