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it will become clearer
like a used bookstore run by nuns
     in a grove of redwoods
I looked in the mirror
& couldn’t speak the language
I was able to find a waiting room
filled with blue butterflies from Mexico
I was so happy I started flying
     over the protests on a rickety bridge
a computer genius says
     there is no difference. crisp dry bacon
     kind of like Andy Warhol
who once was a famous jazz piano player
who had a hard time staying in a group
     half black, half white
suddenly I was much older
with austere tribal energy
     not quite convinced I was a butterfly