Small Talk

How are you today
About dying,
She asked,
I dont know,

Often afraid to go on,
The conversation,
With the heart
Closed down,

But this time, intentionless
Intention,
Listened to the sweet-
bitter* sound of his own voice.

Brahmaviharapharanam for AA on learning of his serious illness

* the inversion of the familiar bittersweet; glukupikron, "sweetbitter", was how Sappho wrote it (fr. 130), and is the better sorting of the possibilities in time


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