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I Am Just Happy Cells
Enough?
Darling, you are life itself,
The warm smile of the cell that split
The zygote that in primordial ooze turned its head towards a scrap of matter
And delighted itself
The force of living that exclaims
“Yes! This sustains me, this made me”
And so joy was born
And so beauty was born.
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And I am here in Queensland
In Godsland
Where the bushes burl
And the sky is alight with a menagerie
And two great orbs that rise and set each evening and morning
Impart their cinema on all around me
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I am here in my house
Where there is a running water tap I can daub my wet mouth into
And drink sweet and clear
Cool or warm
And feel it jumble over each tastebud
Each lip’s pleasure bell
Each zygote’s happy blinking eyelid turning of head to the waterfall
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Don’t you see there are waterfalls in the faucet
And lakes in your bathtub
And paradises of softness between your sheets
And infinite, infinite realms of bliss in your own innards
Each cell each eardrum each nostril each pupil each neuron each nerve each fleck of skin
Each and every sweet living one of you.