But who he is
Not what he says but who he is
Oh yes postmodern
Whoopsiedoo
Me and you
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What is not relative
is me and you
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There is no relativity
in a jerk a blow a bite a spit
Or in a gullet clogged with
fast detritus
There is no relativity in a slaughterhouse
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I’m sorry Ludwig
I really am
But saving words and cradling them and
making them our real existence
was as wrong as you came to see
And Friedrich you were right on
revaluation
but wrong on
power
And Charles you were right all along
but also
human all too human
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And I simply say words freeze
Only when they do take root somewhere do they do damage
or enhance
When they do damage
it is real
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Now take a breath
for everything is real
It’s just that things come down to us
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So if we hurt with what we say
Count it
And if we hurt by what we do
Count it
Words are but a station and a gateway
to heaven or to hell
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Who we are is the
sum of our effects
The balance of
of our hurts and helps
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Forgiveness
is how we change
balances
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We never can undo
what we have done
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When Peter and Andrew
were deciding
whether they would join
Jesus on the shore
Peter said,
“It’s not what he says
but who he is
that makes me feel
that we should both
both say yes …”
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I did not understand it then
But I do now
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