Monday, April 6, 2020

If Pain is a Lesson, What do I make of this Mastery?


The other night you told me how you
learned about suffering
when you studied hot yoga
in Mexico one summer.

We smoked cigarettes (mine menthol, yours red)
 and I said
you’ve lived so many lives and
you said
you have too.

I thought about Watson, Illinois.
All the small spaces
where I learned about suffering
in so many places and in
so many lives.

Have I died so many times?
I just don’t learn my lessons.

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