To take care of everything
is first to make a refusal of it all -
because how can you
sing and dance and laugh
in the streets before this:
taking each and everyone
into account, face to face
including you
caring for the broken pieces,
bleeding scratches,
salty tears,
blackened bruises,
ceaseless and reckless words,
gaping wounds,
silent fears, and loud ones too.
Not to mention -
snotty noses,
dirty underwear...
shattered minds,
all of it.
(Unfolding yourself
to see the others
as they unfold over
again to see themselves:
like a tapestry of everything
we did not know
until now. Sharing and
borrowing. Giving and
taking. Swapping and
switching;
blurring the bounds
of ownership)
Then - everything is ours.
Refuse anything else.
Reach out towards
barely working bodies
aching to speak their own
aching to know their own
language and sense of self
You might lose yourself
but you'll come back
to an exquisite stability
in all the ways you thought
impossible, and have
this superhuman ability
to claim what's yours
and yours alone.
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