Friday, April 4, 2025

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My body knows the lullaby of eight hours.

Less or more shows in the waking,

the tone and tenor of the day,

the accord or discord.

Which brings me to how does the body

know what the mind can’t seem

to grasp?  This quickly replacing 

any other koans I know.  

Which draws out the question 

of spirit.  That place of other 

sense, of where logic lies 

gasping for breath.  Where words

dissolve into laughter.

I don’t even know the words 

to the lullaby.  My mind asks, 

“What are you doing?”

I reply. “What are you doing?”

No reply.  And that tells me something.

 

Hootism:  you can’t deny where you’re from and still be who you are.

-Byron Hoot

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