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<\/a><\/p>\nWE CAN DO THIS …<\/p>\n
Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run;
\nEverywhere \u2014 up\/down, here\/there;
\nSTOP!<\/p>\n
Think\u2014what\/why\/when,
\nYou\/me\/them\/us\/all;
\nSway\u2014
\n\tTOGETHER<\/p>\n
Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance,
\nRound and round and round and round.
\nStill a pluse\u2014still hanging on
\nSTOP!
\nThen start again<\/p>\n
Look, Look, Look;
\nSee that, see this -Look, look – LOOK
\nCloser and closer
\nI see you. Do you see me?<\/p>\n
Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run;
\nWe can run
\n\tTOGETHER;
\nTake my hand\u2014Run, Run, Run;
\nThis way, that way\u2014over and over and over;
\nIs there anything else?
\nLife goes on \u2014the world still turns – who knows why
\nI don’t. BUT, I’m glad you’re here!<\/p>\n
Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run;
\nTogether, step outside the race,
\nSlow down and Dance, Dance, Dance!<\/p>\n
Joy in darkness when you are with me\u2014I am not alone\u2014hold my hand\u2014in the dark\/in the light;
\nI am strong \u2014you are too \u2014we are strong\u2014all are strong \u2014we can do this
\n\t\tTOGETHER
\nCircles, Circles, Circles – Round and Round and Round\u2014all of us
\n\t\tTOGETHER<\/p>\n
Night\/Day, Night\/Day\u2014Work\/Play, Work,\/Play
\nSleep\/Love, Sleep\/Love \u2014Think\/Feel, Think\/Feel
\nAll of it\u2014LIFE<\/p>\n
Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run;
\nIn this world and the next
\nRun, Run, Run, Run, REST\/Enjoy\u2014REST\/Enjoy
\nRun, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run;
\nAll the world \u2014TOGETHER!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Needs work but I had fun. Thanks, Ursula, for opening a door!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Took a poetry workshop this past weekend at Woodmere Art Museum with Ursula Rucker. Never studied writing or poetry (since high school and…) and want to incorporate words in my work, this sounded interesting as a good place to start—and it was! Small group—5 plus Ursula. We listened to music and just wrote what came… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,440],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}