Thank God for everything--

and for everything     else.....

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I'm teaching my stump to move--

it's responding magnificantly--

I tell it to go forward or backward 

it vibrates--

I tell it to stand still

it vibrates 

It vibrates--and I learn....

                                                                       *

I dove into the river--

the water turned to ice--

well, you can imagine the rest--

my prescience was attacked--belittled--

by those who stood 

shivering on the shore

as a harness pulled my broken bones

through its own tropical miasma--

                                                   

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