We are all the same.

Robert Rauschenberg

When you’re angry and have an attitude

Don’t probe your brain in the dark

With a screwdriver and a flashlight

Try to avoid saying “it can’t get any worse”

It really can get a lot worse and quickly

What’s that

You already probed your brain

And your life is a train wreck

For that you’ll need

A better poet than me

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The men with chainsaws and a woodchipper came to trim the trees in the park across the street. My birdcages are by a window facing the park and the birds complained about the activity and the noise, especially the conure. He squawked and raised hell. It was a sunny day, early springtime, and I went outside to watch the work. There’s at least one owl that lives over there somewhere, and I began to worry about it. Of course, I don’t really know that the owl lives there, it could just hunt there, there’s a field and field mice, but in my imagination it lives there. This side of the street is mine, that side belongs to the owl. Sometime between midnight and dawn, I went outside and stood there, leaning on my cane, waiting to hear the soft, familiar ‘hoot.’ It didn’t take long at all.

Alone in the darkness

I waited, hoping for a friend

Welcome, old barn owl

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We are all the same

Laws can’t keep us apart

Borders are nothing

We are all the same

Walls will not separate us

It is love that unites us

It is a hope in each of us

That we are all the same

We breathe, we love, we dream

We are all the same

Laws can’t keep us apart

We will rise up together

Helping each other up

We are all the same

We are all the same

James Lee Jobe

Life, according to Zen, should be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in water. 

D. T. Suzuki

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