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SUGAR DIAMOND
i think socrates
who paid the highest price
for giving things away for free
impacted wisdoms from the gut
rot of the god we put to sleep
like the streets of new york city
near the monuments to failure
big as an appetite for comfort
hear the comfort's conquered purr
i hope, a beast of burden
pulls a plow of glad regrets
we best forgive ourselves. as bad
as it is, this is not as bad it gets
and me, i row always for and toward
my old man you never met
whose line was caught in the sunken trees
where the big catches collect
seems like forever in the awful line
to heaven's bottom step
the columns there wear rock swan hats
my old man, he says, not yet
not yet. no, not yet
he said find what you love
and love what you find
and you know what i said?
want to know what i said?
sugar diamond sugar diamond
sugar diamond, that's what that is
i got the cat by his twisted tongue
i know what a rat is!
i know
das - boulder, colorado, u.s.a.