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(the man
who has
to live
with hindsight...)

the man who has to live with hindsight
had a steady bad-habit diet that wore him
to toothpicks
bore him like newsprint
from vagrant palms

and if that's the inevitable
for a man who Knows,
I feel sorry for You--

--but check this in:

life was never about "knowing",
it's about Learning

the difference between
"being" and "becoming"

that thing you have
where you can't understand
how much
what you are experiencing
is affecting,

they're stuck so
curiously and firmly
within the present

begging yourself
to find a way
to get away
with anything else

how many times a day
you lose yourself
entirely
in parked-eyes at cross-streets

lately it's been
empathizing with trees

notice the difference between
a swimmer and his water
was never such a distance?

dark hair
sits down
next to me
on the train
and the entire time

their arm brushes mine
and knowing I don't
even need to see their face
to feel something other than
just alive

attempting desperately
to connect with
any single thing
to validate my
own reality

this morning I nearly drown
in tunnel-vision buildings

I suppose I could walk back
with my eyes closed

but bury
my head
in a hole

from my heart
to China
on my own?

..I don't know....

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from Where is Jayson Nessi?, released January 1, 2014

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