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2012, 5*, career, creativity, identity, listening, managerialism, night, purpose, responsibility, speech, superhero, Superman, teaching, tragedy
ignore my creation and offer
then tell me to take responsibility
if I want to be heard even though
I can only test the weight
and sway of a re spon si bi li ty
in a place where the walls listen
so I’ll continue to work
with purpose and tragedy
deep into the silent nights to which
ignore that I am wasted and
presume me unnecessary
then suffer me withdrawn then
want me mi nu te ly attentive
to every ache pain and crisis and
all the while imply that I don’t
I am an inverse superhero
everything that is faster taller
and somewhat super in me
doesn’t shift waft or is even noticed
and my secret identity
is suffered to be around ‘if only
he had a bit more élan’
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career wormhole: successive scenes in the autobiopera / conflict and resolution in each episode // credits: me me me me me
creativity wormhole: ashramas
identity & teaching wormhole: again
listening wormhole: through the window
managerialism wormhole: :just wondering
night wormhole: I don’t know what to do …
speech wormhole: Herbert Road diptych
superhero wormhole: the / Woolworth / Building
Superman wormhole: anatta
Love the final stanza, Mark. Quite indescribable, but [almost wistfully] wonderful.
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ha! – the quote from my History teacher at school: I had a schoolboy crush on her but she dashed me to the ground without even knowing it
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