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New (to me) POEM! |
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By: Lurknomore Date: May 18, 2023, 2:47 pm |
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Small Kindnesses D Lameris |
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I�ve been thinking about the way, when you walk |
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down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs |
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to let you by. Or how strangers still say �bless you� |
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when someone sneezes, a leftover |
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from the Bubonic plague. �Don�t die,� we are saying. |
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And sometimes, when you spill lemons |
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from your grocery bag, someone else will help you |
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pick them up. Mostly, we don�t want to harm each other. |
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We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, |
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and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile |
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at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress |
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to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, |
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and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. |
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We have so little of each other, now. So far |
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from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. |
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What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these |
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fleeting temples we make together when we say, �Here, |
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have my seat,� �Go ahead�you first,� �I like your hat.� |
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This was on menu (!) at oldest hotel in WA state ( Tokeland |
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Hotel) we had the incredible luck to visit last wk. The entire |
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place is so peaceful. This poem brought tears I found it so |
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lovely, and so needed these days. And the food was amazing too. |
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