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will this thought do? by Jim Gauer
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will this thought do? by Jim Gauer
from “Will This Thought Do” by Jim Gauer
will this thought do? by Jim Gauer
from “will this thought do” by jim gauer
What a relief / To be wide awake, knowing my wakefulness / Doesn’t need me, sure that my bench exists. / Never doubting its existence beneath me, knowing / For sure that it is truly beneath me / To sit on a bench that I doubt exists. / How sweet to be fully alive, for just this morning / To have nothing to live for, to think well of my thought, [...]
Jim Gauer, in an excerpt from Will This Thought Do?, featured in The Paris Review, Issue 100, Summer-Fall 1986
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