How Are You?

You mean: how have I come to be? –

to manifest this momentary me?

What a brilliant suggestion implied

in the question! – to proffer a ‘how’ to

an ‘are’ and a ‘you’ – conjugate a ‘to be’

into that which would seek to illuminate ‘me’

not through ‘why,’ ‘what’ or ‘where’ –

but in surely that most efficacious, pragmatic

of queries: the one with the best chance

of meeting and then superseding one’s

most existentially troublesome worries,

and truly arriving at now: a ‘how!’ Best word

in the world! My spirit ingests it and spins:

having swirled, it and I ache to offer

a whole lovely wow of an answer to you.

But we haven’t a clue.

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