Nature's Law
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It's Still Sad

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A Smile
I have a SEED
Somewhere within I am
Hugo
Letter to My Brother Frank
Dictation for a Dictator
An Open Door; Heed It
Toast to You
Gleaming Eyes
Said Ken to Me
Count to Satan
Loneliness
Reflective Voyage
Pick up the Pail
Death Today
Quick Life
Old Man's Whistle
God Is:
Each Season
As If Infinity
One Hears the Tune
Have I forgotten Jesus?
Signed to my Sister Brain Damage
Church Description
Den
Death in a Jungle
Ten Lines
Nature's Law
It's Still Sad
The Flea Tree
Gain or Lose
Going Away from Here
Nightmare
Talking about People
Towns and their People
Dear, Dear, Dearest
Population
Top Line
Mountains Reach
Upon these Grounds
A Ship?
Let the Timbers Shake
Wladyshaw
Winds of Fate
Sweet Young Girl
Fingers of Nature
The Lord Spoke
The Celtic Told Me
Mary
Poem to Pat
A Free Man
Poem


And He said, "Come in and go out.
Bring in a few stones and scatter them about.
Rise up to the highest point, then roll back out.

"Come forth to bathe my heated soil.
Spring up to the sky, then fall, again recoil.
Let all mankind see they wonders and brief toils.
So they may know me.

"Ocean of manifest you are called.
Spread yourself wide, tide out and fear not a fall.
Bring on the rains and devour all lands of tall."
So they may know me.

For that is their way.
And as beautiful as it may be,
More so is the ocean, sea, river and bay.

I suppose you can guess I was brought up on the
Great South Bay.

It's Still Sad

He stood above and spoke so wise,
  But the people hated and dispised.
She clung to the building ledge,
 But all laughed and rose their heads.
He cried in the gutter on the street,
 But the public only showed their feet.
She received her firstborn, fatherless,
 Only did she touch it or give a kiss.
He saw people who didn't exist,
 The people chained his feet and wrists.
She looked for a truth today,
 Thepeople stoned her and went their way.
He was happy and so glad,
 Only inside He announced, "Sad. Very, very sad."