Jennifer piss: Grosse Point

nearing as her wee-one pees

mom spots me

and in mid-stream

snatchers her away

rent and bare

wetting her pants

lest i see

i pass and laugh

eyed with dismay

or was it fear

*Reflections of Frederick Buechner:

  -And when Jesus comes along saying that the greatest command of all is to love God and to love our neighbor, he too is asking us to pay attention.  If we are to love God, we must first stop, look and listen to him in what is happening around us and inside us.  If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors.  With our imagination as well as with our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces.  Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.

  -Why did we weep? I asked myself.  We wept for all that grandeur gone.  We wept for martyrs cruelly slain.  We wept for Christ, who suffered death upon a tree and suffers still to see our suffering. But more than anything, I think, we wept for us, and so it ever is with tears.  Whatever be their outward cause, within the channel of the heart it's we ourselves for whom they finally fall.

  -Introspection in the long run doesn't get you very far because every time you draw back to look at  yourself, you see again everything except for the part that drew you back, and when you draw back to look at the part that drew back to look at yourself, you see again everything except what you are really looking for. 

  -Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet, because where your feet take you, that is who you are.