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How To Be a Genuine Fake

Desire birthed us. Desire created everything. Desire chose to be us. We are not helpless puppets we are willing puppets. We are actors sharing the same space in an ever changing theater. Then when the curtain parts just a little bit, then we see behind all the masks. We see that we are all only a desire, a desire happening, a desire desiring to be something. We’re not even human. We are just experiencing being human. We are being a desire. Now you know you're the only one and there are no other's, just You. Now you know you are ‘God’ (or whatever label we choose from our very limited vocabulary to describe the indescribable). You are That. Happily and at peace you return to the play, to be only playful. and you don't even ask, want or need to know what comes next. For it is You that is next, always You.

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Date: 1/25/2023 2:12:00 PM
We are (are we not?) all alone in our individual universes, are we not (or we are not? Yes?) Interesting.
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Eric Ashford
Date: 1/26/2023 11:21:00 AM
Thank you Larry, yes quite so. I have been reading some of your poets as others on this forum and although I rarely comment on them, I will (must) say you are a very good writer. Best EA

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