president prime

the world then _ president s and prime ministers o f love.
civic love travels its beauty to all women and men
all varieties of sentient beings ~
becomings of variety

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poems are civic messengers of virtue
the virtue in this sense being the civilizing one
that carries pathos and tenderness
across the cosmos ~

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this is not mere sentimentalism
as virtue defined in this
way
employs the strength
of human imagination


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