Since desire is suffering I do not Desire anything I have not got Having everything that a friend might need Though being a friend in need indeed So I might as well be if temporarily Having not got some things but I do Have what I do have and that will have to Do like it does like it did because I will be my friend like I always was Indeed in need of a friend like me Having desired having suffered a lot Of two minds but in one head instead Taking poverty making poetry If not a living read and not dead And "nothing propinks like propinquity" Like my friend thinks J. Robert Oppenheimer said Or maybe not for maybe he forgot More like George Ball quoting after all Ian Fleming from 1956 Poetics can be like politics Though still he thought he did so I will too I am not alone I am with me Thinking and propinking in our propinquity +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXIII