No Excuse

“Remember. The way you make love
is the way God will be with you.” Rumi

You cast about today for games to play –
and that is simply not the way.
(Use your music!) Spirit fuses, clots:
schedules and plots for seeing tourist spots

abound: map and train and bus and ferry,
art and history and zoo: you’re through.
Even Judy Garland movies aren't for you.
The sky avails precisely in its plump

refusal to precipitate one thing. It waits
for you to sing. You are what you do:
do not for one stark nanosecond think
that any other take is true. Rubies

are the light they capture: everyone is sun.
No excuse. Be and drink the juice.
Here’s your lover – run for cover! – raging
all about. He gonna knock you out.

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