A southern transplant in a Bushwick bar defends his indicted nation They got a story and a right to tell it, I’m gonna listen like I would to you I don’t condemn them or respect and forgive them, I honestly don’t know what else I can do Understanding doesn’t mean I approve and compassion isn’t normalization Compassion isn’t normalization, compassion isn’t normalization Understanding doesn’t mean I approve and compassion isn’t normalization Oh, a widow jokes with the guests arriving at her husband’s memorial service Her sister and her mother are confused by that and they tell her it’s offensivе and flippant She says, “The way that I handle this part isn’t wrong just ‘causе it’s different I can’t divide my feelings up neatly; I’m sorry if it makes you nervous “I’m sorry if it makes you nervous, I’m sorry if it makes you nervous But I can’t divide my feelings up neatly; I’m sorry if it makes you nervous” A recent college dropout sits in a library study room Reading Dickey’s Strength of Fields while the August dusk descends outside The melancholy of a later summer, the perspective a Dickey poem can provide Prompts him to reassess some things what he previously just assumed Like how the lines we draw between joy and pain, between liberal and reactionary They’re about as real as the lines a child draws on the playground pavement in chalk Now I’m disinclined to allow those lines to define where I can and cannot walk Boundaries, of some folks, make sense of the world, but for me they’re not necessary Oh, for me they’re not necessary, for me they’re not necessary Boundaries, of some folks, make sense of the world, but for me they’re not necessary
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