Word
Gems
What is a
man but the sum of his thoughts?
Poetry:
- Tricia Cherin's
- Closure
-
- There's a reason why I dislike this term
- aside from the general principle that
- psychologists' jargon too often
- trucks in the mock heroic
- unwise to its own hyperbole
But of all the priggish terminologies
- so somberly wielded
- I find closure
- this pop-psych aphorism
- the most offensive
It does us great disservice to think
- we are ever done
- with people
- as if the stuff that happens
- could be finger snapped away
- as if we could take off
- like a sweater
- teleological yearning
It used to be hard
- to let go of little moments
- groupings togethernesses
- when we were all accruing lives
- filling ourselves up
- with history like helium
I wanted to hold tight then
- each coming together
- before the going going gone
- of the next day's gavel
Now we have enough stories to stock us
- enough character studies
- and scene locations
- enough O. Henry endings
- but the apertures to who we have been
- and where and how must be open
- our anterior selves beholdable
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