Our Jeopardy - Thomas John Carlisle

[Larry Robinson]

Our Jeopardy 


It is good to use best china 
treasured dishes 
the most gentle goblets 
the oldest lace tablecloth 
there is a risk of course 
every time we use anything 
or anyone shares an inmost 
mood or comment 
or a fragile cup of revelation 
but not to touch 
not to handle 
not to employ the available 
artifacts of being 
a human being 
that is a quiet crash 
the deadly catastrophe 

where nothing is enjoyed or broken 
or spoken or spilled 
or stained or mended 
where nothing is ever 
lived 
loved 
pored over 
laughed over 
wept over 
lost  
or found. 

	- Thomas John Carlisle 
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