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Friday, April 24, 2015

Breakfast with Einstein

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Breakfast with Einstein

Bacon and eggs
Peanut butter and jelly
Time and space

You may have heard one of 
your spiritual friends 
use the phrase timelessness. 

As if time were an arbitrary construct 
with no real presence.

It's gotten casual. Like imagining 
breakfast with Einstein 
without questions.

But space-less-ness is something 
I will have to think about 
for a little bit 
by myself ... over there.

Some where.



4/23/15
DLW

Thursday, April 23, 2015

I came back for you

I came back for you

It’s 42° and nearing dark in a very busy intersection 
while a young woman with stringy hair and baggy clothes 
was in the southbound median holding up a homeless sign 
other impertinent and illegible words also scribbled on. 

I was the second car in the left turn lane and
in the couple moments to imagine logistics
my green arrow signaled. There were cars behind me.

I went on to the mini-mart to buy some lottery tickets 
came out, went around the block, made a U-turn and 
timed the lights and the traffic so that I could give her 
something.

I don't usually do that; less often with men. I flashed 
the lights, waved, she leaped. Something about her. 

She was very polite, smiled, had lip piercings I'm glad I 
didn't know that earlier on. It might have gone another way.

“Thank you very much, sir. God bless you.” 
"Bless you too. I said I came back for you."

There were only moments. The light changed. I went to
the next u-turn and came around again beeping and waving.

~~~~~


April 22, 2015 © David L White