manifesto
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down, down with sensible shoes!!! here's to tottering heels and slides of faux leopard.
here's to eating with our fingers, to juice dribbling down chins
to old women who dance and have riotous gardens.
here's to staying up much too late, just to have the time alone
and to valentines, sent to strangers who please us.
"dear waitress with the pointy glasses and the tattoo of a fly on your ankle,
please accept this token of my esteem for your blissful grin and the way you balanced the smoothies, and for being nice to my dad, who was drunk and nervous."
down, down, with noises that incite reasonable persons to violence-- cell phones in toilets, that white guy making millions rhyming about raping his mother,
suits in meetings talking "proactive" and "players at the table", all whining, especially mine.
up, up with the right kind of noise-- old fiddlers, rocks in water, giggling persons of most any age, heartsongs and truths told happily.
here's to rhythms we find in the everyday, here's to the extra we find in
the ordinary.
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