Blessed indeed are we who live among those who hate, hating no one; amidst those who hate, let us dwell without hatred. Among and without. He asked me why, if I believe in chance, I put dates on my meditations. You should feel free to read in another dis-order; thus, history gets muddled, but thinking goes on apace. You can give the poet anything and she'll think on it, about it, within it, without it. It’s just a launching pad for prepositions, those that quickly turn to propositions. Bring me your little words, the ones that stand beside or next to, appearing to hold the wall up like a beam. Are those bolts real, one wonders, or put there to reassure us the roof is stable, even when in torrential rains, it leaks. That was his name! Lorenzo Leak, whose son I found well after my father’s death. He’d called the hospital, but couldn’t speak to my dad. (It was my mother's doing, as I recall.) I returned the call after he died. It’s the way we have of ignoring death, refusing to truck in its finalities. Mayu puts up a photograph of Marie’s plum tree, its purple blossoms blossoming. Anne feels her late husband’s presence in another room; he’s quiet, she notes, but a comfort.
I live within myself, but cannot live without you. Is that how prepositions describe love? I’ve leased some time in this affordable housing of mine. Lucky enough to win the lottery, I'll have a place to live, after it’s built, of course. For now, I inhabit the idea of a box inside the idea of a building beside a real ocean. The idea archive is easy to move; no need for trucks or men. Gaza, we see, is shaped like a casket. Is that prophecy or grim irony masquerading as history? Which date would you set on this entry? Old film video cameras required the photographer to turn a crank. History shuddered, though it can now be stabilized with the appropriate software. Horse and carriage on Kalakaua Avenue, circa 1906; donkey and cart in Gaza today. History as stubborn as pack animals, condemned to repeat itself, and not because it forgot.
Someone designs luxury housing for Gaza in the after-life of history, then claims it was a joke. Struggle to read the Bible? Listen to God’s word / effortlessly using Dwell.
Note: first quotation from the Dhammapada, Kaviratna, translator. The second from here: https://dwellapp.io/
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