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This is not your “I Am” poem I know what you came to hear its plain to see just wait let me explain this is not your “I Am” poem give me one moment given to forgive me momentary lapse of reason as I am so often prone to do but again this is not your “I Am” poem / but mankind’s royal “I Am” poem decreed not we are the world we are the children but the story of those on their knees exchanging diseases for pleasure just to keep their bellies or their addictions sated / “We are” what we are and we are exceptional in our excesses beautiful in our extremes and here observe what we are in our moments short drawn eternal / And what we are is a contradiction / in a moment we are falling in love for all the reasons we tell ourselves we should / we are thinking of someplace we would rather be / we are killing each other for money for love for god as played as George Burns / we are polluting the world that bears our scars faster than we’ve learned her name and nature / we are more in tune with television programming than politics / we are watching the line between religion politics and entertainment once again disappear as Rome is reborn / this time, we are not the lions / we are capable of so much more / we are infant savants savage children destructive peddlers of knowledge not patience / we should be ashamed of ourselves / we are the proud owners of automobiles and asthma, gated homes and unbridled hostilities, diplomas and debts and dependents and dysfunctional families, gun control and uncontrolled anger, missing children and missing the point of being a child / we are holding each other and for a moment assured that the only hands touching us are those we choose / we are the end result of thousands of years of struggle, toil, battles and we are yet unwilling to sacrifice any longer / are we so afraid to die? / we are leaving our future in poverty and in the hands of those unwilling to see the price that we pay for all this finery is ourselves / we are immersed in noise and deaf to the music / we all must be really, really annoying to mimes / we are defining our generations no longer by the decade but by the hour / we read ebert but not e.e.cummings or eco or even horton hears a hoo! - and we are definitely the worse for it / we are fighting battles over economics and talking about human rights / we are way off in our priorities / we are all praying to gods of every religion and none answer tolerance / we are delusional articulate self-centered unaware petty insecure brilliant driven / aren’t we beautiful? / I am.

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