What I learned in elementary school was
that all the famous people. successful people,
brilliant people, leaders, scientists, artists, inventors, athletes
yes, all the poets and other writers
are dead. Who keeps the world turning?

What I learned in elementary school was
that all the famous people. successful people,
brilliant people, leaders, scientists, artists, inventors, athletes
yes, all the poets and other writers
are dead. Who keeps the world turning?
I flow today like this two-hearted river.
My energies come from two different places
in my past that should have passed,
but they have pooled around me today.
I’m trying to empty them. Dissipation. Loss.
The most famous Two Hearted River runs through Michigan and the branches drain into Lake Superior. That’s not my two-hearted river.
I no longer believe in the green
light on Daisy’s dock, or any place,
or the future moving away from me.
But I do believe we’re boats against
the current, borne back into the past.
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