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I wrote this piece in dialogue with Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready."  I would imagine it would be more fun and resonantly robust to revisit the song before reading this poem about peaceful strains of compassionate communication.

A transitional skill my Mom taught me, good to use when I start to feel at-risk, somehow anyhow, whether in my relationship with her, or with EarthDays more kosmic travels through naturally wild and domestic spirits. Remember to ask permission before you are sure of how they will answer especially when you may not yet fully know what or how or when you have sufficient rights to ask. “May I ask you a question?” can be felt as a stab in hearts for lovers who thought you were their safe always question-space, their primal source of both mystery and childlike endless curiosity inviting multi-reiterated “Why and how did you arrive at this active curiosity station” soaking deeper into your most richly fertile non-judgment souls and trauma-free vulnerably transparent communion. If, when you ask about your right time to express curiosity with your Mom, Earth, Lover, Child, Colleagues, Political and Economic Leaders, fellow pilgrims along our co-invested nurturing way, if they seem to not respond at all, your best translation of this silence might be “Apparently not right now. Please try again later. I will probably be back campaigning complaining impatiently explaining your way again soon.” If, when you ask along your poli-economic peace train path, you hear something like “I’m sorry, what did you say, again?” your warmest translation could be “Please repeat. I was not available for your question, but now I might be. However, beware, my mind-train is in transition-mode right now, and I might not fully engage as compared to another better appointed departure time." Here it could be helpful to memorize a script: “May I share a few of your minutes later today?” or variations on this quarter-turn of compassionate communication, meeting each other halfway between Your hope to gain my full attention at all your most convenient times everywhere you turn for answers and warmly safe and healthy relationships And avoiding your negatively correlated parallel hope to not receive EarthTribe’s traumatic dissociations intending no forth-giving generous response to whatever it is that you are passionately investing in just before you asked for this transactional nutrition train to become invested in your right of say “Why can’t I have your attention in this deep listening peace train way, right now?” kinda’ pushy, but maybe worth an actively curious win/win cry. If, when you ask for emotive engagement, "People get ready" verbal performance, peaceful intentions extending co-empathic win/win relationship, such as “May I ask you an openly transparent and curiously vulnerable peace-trained question?” If sacred EarthTribe responds with “I have always hoped you are my most curious resource for engaging life’s richest, deepest, most indigenously therapeutic and appropriately intimate touching feeling wisdom-seeking questions.” And then goes on and on resonantly, redundantly, passionately, pleasantly good humored Especially about healthy relationship choices and love as life’s peace-train pilgrimage, co-mentoring how to truly trustingly and beautifully communicate both within and without our network of neurosystemic brains destined for mindful peace stations Our most fierce "People Get Ready" conductors for golden ticket rules extending EarthTribe's warm conditioned peace-train compassionately pleasured landscapes co-redeeming Non(0) safe-zone peace and passion and pleasing verbal flow connecting EarthTribe's cooperatively curious win/win circle charts Rescheduling natural rights to sequester Earth-embedded active hope for WinWin inside/outside questers despite LoseLose trauma histories of despair death and decay Invoking actively curious peace train questions, great and small transitional nation stations exploring EarthTribe rights to peace-train climate trends "Would you be surprised if I believe we already feel resonance ready?" If you hear anything along considerable peace-train lines of compassionate curious questions please don’t worry so much about forgetting what your LeftTrain competing-for-attention closed off ego-mongering answer was, or might become without furthering MyBrain constipated undevelopment. Rather, refocus on why did you think you need to voice this relentless right to question your humane rights to receive a free grace ticket on EarthTribe's sacred peace-brain here and now? Why not just ask your originally intended win/win openly transparent question? Is this your healthiest and best primal question restoring each peace justice response? Wondering why we are healthiest engaging warmly curious peace-brain resourcing child-felt questions People get ready our train is coming, warm healthy climates winning health rights openly engaging unconditional passions leading to EarthBrain's CuriousCity May I ask you an open question? “I most certainly hope you will.” Namaste, for mutually-assured peace-train pilgrimage Indigenously retraveling re-ligioning MuseMystery Curiously courageously waiting within each neurosystemic way-station to become more politically empowered economically enlightened peace-train networked cooperative re-connecting opportunities to compassionately ask “Why not Win/Win?” Receiving health and safety PeaceRights answers to extend sacred EarthTribe democracy communions intelligently co-designing actively questioning openly transparent win/win empowering loss of unenlightened win/lose baggage retraining faith in peace-train tickets toward co-infested tranquility. May we ask you a question for a healthier train system now? Why? Because I do not know how to answer for Earth's healing time now past or ask in future communion stations before this Why freedom to speak wealthy win/win rights now. Why not yet another win/lose repulsive snow job? degenerating unease against all Othered. People Get Ready every health rights way igniting EarthMother's peace-train You don't need a ticket to speak on board.

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