Of Love and Things

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black friday
pop up ads
vanity fair
folded perfume

possess, covet
objects of pride
I’m better than you
insistence that

moneyed hierarchy
is the answer
will solve
all woes

sorry, not sorry
to say, this
accumulating life
is wasting time

on things (and
you’ve heard this
before), stuff won’t
make you happy

but instead, yes
love, it is
so simple
also free

Harness the Stream

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and when the time
comes, the sentence will
appear already begun, as
if words were writing
themselves, this is how

the subconscious works
creating narratives that are
never heard, only thought
until someone tries to
put it all in print, and

then what happens? so
tricky to harness the
stream, all this like a
dream become understood
or forever a mystery

Lava Mae

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After years of bringing students to volunteer with Lava Mae, I was so happy that my daughter and her friend were able work with them yesterday in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Lava Mae is a San Francisco–based nonprofit that delivers mobile showers and other critical services to the street, where people moving through homelessness need them most.

For more information, please visit: https://lavamae.org/