Jack Spratt

120629 0519 you too Thurgood?

The M&M Chronicles + Betsy Gardner not in a tutu but running shoes

© 2012 by Jack Spratt All Rights Reserved

"None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots." --Thurgood Marshall

What!

You too Thurgood?

This newly discovered

that now remembered Tradition

Paying forward gifts received unconditionally given

feasts Moveable submission acceptance received attended consumed

Mother to son father to daughter sister to brother

Sister/Sister Brother/Brother in orphanages More Please plum pudding

no black bird pie flapping yappy

Stranger to stranger young to older Older become younger by

girls conciliate through Men/Women with younger boys asexual mentors

boys & Men Woman & girls

Trust must begin somewhere near now long past opportunities

the gifts of those who Care exceptional instead of Take or Steal more common

Manifold love acts of transformation Hope embraced going forward

enkindled loving one another @/&/4 in intimate friendship no other benefits

The Source riotously laughing now a smile/simile replicated metaphorically

instead of weeping

We Free Healed whole & complete

I give with fondness and gratitude forward what I have learned the kindness of strangers from

The only serenity trusted my solitary hours of thanksgiving Joy The next longest day praised & adored 4 evermore light years telegraphed shortened to quark +2/3 or -1/3 seconds fuzed

Words defined turning fireflies to starry cosmological glorious accepted the crown our inheritance turning upside down inside/right side out Wonderingly brimmed overflowing a vessel we never empty infinite going forward two rivers flowing together forward scintillating tintinnabulous

Touch me now different between feline & woman being Not now but why Is

Just touch me always hear me follow me more nearly dearly clearly not sexual but affectionate not contractual but ever expansive across the starry starry day dawned priceless paid in friendship 4 ever more better 4 giving is cubed a trillion times over & again rejoiced 4 no other gratuity

Eschew Objectification

120701 18:17

I'd need a pole long enough to vault the heavenly moon and beyond to express my gratitude for so many who before me a glimmer was conceived wrote spoke and lived truth. But of those peers who are more so than me I in mendicant motley kneel toe bells silent pointy toes in revery and Thanks Giving the affirmations show me when I so loathed myself. Blind confused and wanting to leave prematurely Oddly speechless mute

this must have between lip and cup slipped down my front into my what shoes? I'm barefoot!