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Art by Danny Gregory–

Gain-said

There is so much pain
that cannot be
gain-said,
disease not easable, loss that can’t
be found, accidents that will not
unhappen,
an unavoidable heaviness of being
that won’t be breathed away
even if we tried–

But we don’t try
terribly hard–make miseries like mud-pies
as if they were something
to eat, foment
discontent, substitute the non-essential
for the existential, court
drama–

Oh, we Cartesians, who think therefore
we be–we bees who harbor
honey, buzz about it,
sting–

Oh, we shopping Cartesians,
we non-stopping Cartesians,
we go-Cartesians,
we blow-by-blow Cartesians,
we donkey Cartesians,
we flog-a-dead-horse Cartesians,
we artisans of
cartilege and bone, of bone
and desire,
we beings who often
don’t think.

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Another late night attempt!  This time a pseudo-philosophical.  (I have never much for the philosophical.)   As a process note, the word “Cartesian”  essentially means of or relating to the extremely rational French Philosopher Rene Descartes, who, in the early 1600s, coined the idea of “I think, therefore I am,”  (“Je pense, donc je suis  or Cogito ergo sum!”)   

I am posting this belatedly in connection with the dVerse Poets Prompt, hosted by Gabriella, featuring the drawings of Danny Gregory.  Gabriella did a very good interview of Mr. Gregory, whose work may be found on flicker.