Not All 44s Are Alike

Thinking of the leaps of numerology this morning
Watching film of the swearing in of the 44th president of the United States
Remembering why 44 is important to me
The year I was born
But, no
There is no connection unless we make one
In our lives
In our behaviour
In how we are in the world.

Listening to the year in review
Thinking I want to look forward
Not backward
Where am I going?
What will I let happen to me
In a world I have little control of?
How far does my responsibility reach
Into the life I live into the world I live in?

What will I do today?
Will I let myself find an excuse
To not go out into my world?
Will I skip the New Years poets North Beach banquet
At Live worms by being too tired?
By not knowing when it happens?
By letting myself be ‘sick’?

Go out get out reach out listen
Listen listen
Let my world be my world
Not just a reflection of what I focus on
Let the source be out there
In my world.