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Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

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Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.

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Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

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Beauty Asks for a Rose

to the Saviour of all saviours

only bring me the Rose of all roses
clouded pink in winter's storms
the Artic rose no one can comprehend

or reconfigure

the high serene silver
rose confounding moonlight
recovered by kings in flight

from their lost kingdoms

the one that is mirrored in
the starry triptich
whenever I close my eyes

only bring me the cardinal Rose, the rose of
hidden music, scrolled and scrolled the

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Song is a Ladder of Diamonds

song is a ladder of diamonds
flung into space
we try to reach You on

every rung
and fail

song is a web of stars
we get lost in
a mist a drizzle of

music half-forgotten
when the prompting angels

fade from view

song is a difficult road
in a drenching rain on the way to work
and being on foot

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I Lost the Colors of Giotto

I LOST THE COLORS OF GIOTTO

I lost the colors of Giotto:
the steady pouring of
earnest angels; the
forerunning fuchsia
of generations of light

and fountaining ardor.

I lost the sorrowless
carmine quiet, the
rectitude of stars lapped
in lapis lazuli

the indigo stairwell of clouds.

I lost the olive branching, the
sweet cerulean days; the small
birds gathered in the lemon wind;

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Lives of the Hunger Artists

'This is my letter to the world'
-Emily Dickinson

'O Jerusalem, stoning the prophets,
how often I would have gathered...'
Jesus Christ

'This living hand, warm and capable'
-John Keats

I am sending you this last letter:
written on snow
by moonlight.

you do not answer
when I ask:
you do not

honor what I honor.
you leave thorns

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Any Heart Breaking Over the World Is

ANY HEART BREAKING OVER THE WORLD IS

to the once and shining, Russia-
to Vladimir Ashkenazy's beautiful interpretation of Prokofiev's Cinderella...


any heart breaking over the world is
breaking off in mid-sentence
still, I believe in words:

in music tuned from words
in words inlaid in music
emerging with farthest meanings;

reduced to no one's ashes.

don't chronicle what no one
can endure, we'll be our own
country - after all - and

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