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Cosmopolitics



That everything is possible
or permissible
or rewarding
or tolerable
or endurable
doesn't obligate me
to desire it all
equally.

I am what I pick up
and what I leave alone
even more than I am
the algorithm of choice.

I don't have to carry the world
to justify my place in it.

All poems are written and copyrighted by Michael C. Rush.
None may be republished or repurposed without permission.