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1 impasse

they wanted me to conduct Second Waltz

for a high school orchestra class

and I thought one part went in 3/4

and one in 2/2

and the sign for the time

was the symbol for infinity

everything disorganized

and last minute and late

looking for parts, stands and chairs

I don’t recall even beginning

2 epiphany

on a ship on an icy sea being “chased” by an ice floe

and you didn’t know if it ended as a shipwreck or not

and I was thinking “I am so tired of shipwrecks!”

3 breakthrough

I was instrumental in saving the government of a small African nation from overthrow by two women.

4 taking stock

Photographs, and

digging in a park in a depressed area of France

with a boy and girl, and we uncovered beautiful

mineral stones in labels, but who had thrown them away?

5 orientation

A rock musician, hugely popular

wore nothing but white

even his hair

“He was different from the others

because when we told him to die

he did, and was very happy.”

6 perseverance

We kept running into members of Dave Matthews Band,

and someone told them about the book. One of them said

he wanted to see it sometime. I was flattered, I didn’t think

he was serious. I was in my room reading when he suddenly

walked in and said “Well, where is it?” and I thought

“Oh gosh, he really wants to see it,

what have I been doing?”