the cross or a lifeboat? (with a nod to Jess)

my anthropologist friend
from the Big Apple writes:
"Demonstration of the surpassing of human limitations
is a matter of fact. It is not a matter of debate."
"I don't know Thai
and you don't know me."
I write back;
there is no window through these
perceptions that manifests the intelligence
of a universe

I've already made the coffee strong,
while you are sleeping, my love,
just like you like it,
creative design is not an evolutionary idea for some,
God didn't make little green apples
that fell to earth,
but as long as there's a Matisse or a Michelangelo
I know that god still wears many masks
stilettos, baseball caps and lipstick too,
roots
for the home team, it's just
that some of us are trying to super-size them to fit our egos
and some of us deny that life is a burden too heavy to
carry alone.

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