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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Weeble Wobbles

You topple over
as all unbalanced things do.
There is no perfect place
for you to sit upon,
and yet I keep putting you back
each and every time you roll off.

I don’t know why
I can’t just let you lie on your side.
You seem happier there,
and I’d probably be happier too,
if I could just let you be.

I don’t dare get up on that pedestal.
I’m far too unbalanced.
The severe honesty of my experience
offers me this practical humility.

Oh, how the lead in our bottoms
and the law of gravity
forever makes a fool out of me!

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