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The poetic city: “What’s Coming Next 1/31/2020”

Feb 10, 2020 • Creative Writing

When a butterfly flaps, our future may be found. (Photo: Wiki Commons)

What’s Coming Next 1/31/2020

I don’t know what’s coming next…

None of us do.

This year we may be hit with another Katrina …

Or, we may be spared because a butterfly

changed the direction of its flight at the last moment.

Living is such a complicated business

with innumerable contingencies,

impossible to predict with any real certainty

Except, of course, that anything that has a beginning

must have an end …

Both of which will remain forever enshrouded in mystery.

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