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The eleventh hour

Marianne Schaefer

I’m surrounded by caring loving souls who
Knock at my door.....
Take my hand on the bus.....
Stop me on the street.
With toothy white grins they extend me
the olive branch of salvation...
The floaty for a drowning soul...
An invitation to the forever patio party with god.
Are they angels sent to retrieve a sinner....
People with Jezebel quotas to fulfill...
Or just jealous voyeurs who want to clear away the salacious vapors I continue to spill?

And how do they know?
There must
be an aura that surrounds me...
Pink and orange in a fuchsia sea.
Or perhaps the smell of unbridled sex
that went all night and involved a few...
Often more than just two,
Or the way I eat my fruit, saving juices that escape to my hands with a second lick.

What I do know is this...
My life , my path , the dharma...
And all the challenges that I surmount and subdue...
And the pleasures of flesh or spirit,
Be they libertine or sacrosanct.....
Belong to me -
Not to you!

Perhaps I have grown accustomed to being a child of a lesser god,
One who birthed me ...
Big banged me ...
and cast out with my own free will.
Not a keeper of my brother or a righteous holy shill.
So let this cat keep strutting and know its just too late...
Please don’t bother to save me...
I’m past my expiration date



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