The Art of Living

from The Wizard and the Weaver by Anthony Carson

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How do you perch upon the seat of your discomforts?
how can you maintain a state of such disconcern?
how can you sleep at night
leaving your people to die?

you're a cageless bird to purge the weight of stealing
cuts from the loaf of the unlearned and the healing
now you're a bird who flies
without a friend in the sky

watching you watching me with binoculars from the window
the season to kill may come, til then i will savor the taste of the sun
i watch you build another fence, n' i think
"why can't we all be fed from the excess?"

come the dying child of God, strewn up against the stars
and a new moon
some shining light pervades, explodes, and then it fades
now imagine that child is you

who's to say you left too soon, if you did what you had to do,
with love and a gentle heart
its a dying art

Make it live again.

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from The Wizard and the Weaver, released March 19, 2017

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Anthony Carson Erie, Pennsylvania

Musician & Illustrator, barmaid for the milk of the ineffable.

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