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<h1><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Enough of This</font></span></h1>
<div class="MsoNormal">Enough of this—names, titles, roles—</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">all the bits and pieces </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">that shored up this self </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">now crumbling beyond repair. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Let them go. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Watch the memories</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">and moments </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">spill like beads</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">from a broken string </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">too worn to knot again or replace.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">One thing after another,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">once piled up like a barricade</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">against who knows what.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Books, concepts, causes,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">travels or acquired tastes—</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">all futile fumblings<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">for something to hold on to,<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">each a willful distraction</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">from what is happening now.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">What matters in this moment?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Not these words but</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">the wind whistling, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">the empty sky, the smell</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">and touch of grass,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">and the clear taste</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">of water from this glass. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>- Newton Smith<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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