SUBJECT>Re: Evidence of Change POSTER>Sherry EMAIL>ranch@rocketmail.com DATE>1111426426 IP_ADDRESS>69-161-206-253.clspco.adelphia.net PASSWORD>aapDmzY55pzBE PREVIOUS>85082 NEXT> 85162 IMAGE> LINKNAME> LINKURL>

I really like this poem, Jack.

("How did that happen?" gasped her
metronome.)

absolutely had me smiling. The last line, however, seems a bit too pretentious (an easy out) with the word jazzes.

s.

: Evidence of Change

: Observe Mary observing God.
: To illustrate another type of energy,
: consider a pendulum.
: If we pull her mass aside and release it,
: and if the Ten Commandments say, "Thou
: shall not covet,"
: or if you say, "My saxophone swings back
: and forth,"
: and if Mary loses height swinging
: from either end to the center,
: and if we draw on our childhood expectations
: of unqualified love and acceptance,
: admit calmly that the most important feature of
: any cycle
: is transformation, no matter who kissed her
: after class,
: ("How did that happen?" gasped her
: metronome.)
: then evidently it is by virtue of being in
: motion
: that she is able to climb up again
: and again and repeatedly
: the machinery by which she returns
: is any moment where she has been,
: a dissolving past she jazzes between.