Have I?

-Jim DuBois

Far-Away Planet

There’s this
     far-away planet
     which I visited
           once

The people who lived
     there

Spoke
     a different language

And in the years
     I spent
           living there

I learned that they had
     no word for
           “enlightenment”

The closest translation
     into their language
     meant
     “The day he began to smile”

“Love” meant nothing
     to them,
     but the phrase
     “The one who feeds you”
     seemed almost Holy

“God”
     translated to
   “A room without walls”

And “War”
     left them
     entirely stumped


-Jim DuBois
circa 2000

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The Golden Age

The Golden Age
     is now

The Golden Age
     is always  now

Me writing this,
     you reading it


-Jim DuBois
April 30, 2017

Quabbin Hike in February

Snow covering ev-
erything. No Place to sit!
Trudge _Trudge Trudge _Trudge Trudge


-Jim DuBois
Feb 19, 2017

Like the Sun #76

I knew a man who ran
a house building business,
and he often said,
“My workers are stupid,
and just don’t think about
what they are doing.”

Later I met someone who worked
for him, who told me the following,
“I have two saws,
a handsaw and an electric saw,
and each serves a different purpose.
When I get paid by the hour,
I use the handsaw.
When I get paid by the job,
I use the electric one.”


-Jim DuBois
2012

Like the Sun #1
Leadership - Like the Sun #17
In the Winter, I saw Ducks - Like the Sun #65
The Great Canyons - Like the Sun #66

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Noel, I forgot you were dead

"That's where
I met Noel
selling paper ephemera
at the sidewalk sale.

He's this interesting guy...

...well, he was...

I forgot: he died
this past winter.

We would
bump into each other
around town,
play a little magic
or poker,
he would tell me
about being italian,
about his Sicilian hertitage,
and then we wouldn't
see each other
for a while,
six months or a year.

I guess I figured
this was just another
of those
in between times.

Maybe that's
a better way
to think about it
anyway."


-Jim DuBois
Aug, 4, 2016

Working Class Wisdom #5

My maintenance guy,
after repainting
my bathroom ceiling,

"I try to make it
a little better if I can
but not worry about it
too much.

After all,
it ain't the Taj Mahal!"


-Jim DuBois
Aug 9, 2016

Working Class Wisdom #4