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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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A Post-Mortem Conversation

Please let me know
if you’d like a post-mortem.
We can talk tomorrow,
or the day after,
or even the day before.
The day does not matter
now that you know time is one
with all it is said to move.

Go back to the moment
just before you learned
about the circularity of time,
before you suddenly realized
there are things you cannot see,
before you stopped arguing
with your own ignorance.

Let that re-turning
turn you inside out.
Then after we go around again,
let’s talk some more.

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