Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Permission Slip

Dear people, I hereby give
you permission. Be joy.
Swing on swings. Dance a tango.
Play your trumpet through the streets,
along the river. Take off your shoes and wade,
feel the mud between your toes. Eat
butter or whipped cream on everything.
I feel I must remind you, life is small, over soon.
Insist on friends.

2 comments:

  1. You make me like poetry again.

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  2. This is Kris. The post is identifying me as "Pure Id" - weird. I followed the link to make a comment and it linked in with a blog I started about Duncan and almost never write in - but think about every single day (Can you guess to whom the "Id" refers?)

    Is this fate, prodding me to write? Using you as a muse?

    Happy Poetry month, Dawn! Love the poem. Thanks.

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