Sunday, March 4, 2012

St. Paul's Valentine

He’s like the deaf Beethoven
whose inner hearing reached
such a pitch he no longer heard
in this world his own music
or like the alcoholic Zen master
no different from the alcoholic
bi-polar poet making in words
what he cannot in his life
we do what we would not do
what we teach others not to do
I myself the koan
which I solve by being
I myself the sickness
which I heal by living

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