Why would I leave this paradise to go
To where they say I’d be a fool to go?
With no one casting me out.
But in a fool’s paradise
Overlooking those in need,
What fearful hard-heads don’t realize,
What the selfishly unhealthy can’t understand:
That life in an unchanging replica,
Brings misfortune to the pariah
For those who think it lasts forever.
I have to keep on moving out of forecast range
As animals feel earthquakes before they arrive
And verify omens out of our reach.
When men on the chessboard tell us where to go,
We must tune in to frequencies on pirate radio
Without concern that it is in vain.
I will leave and feel no pain,
May it always stay this way
Until my dying day.
Dedicated to Mary Catherine
September 22, 2020
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