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The Politics of Doors

Posted on August 17, 2019 by robert okaji

The Politics of Doors

With every doorway, decisions.
Accept, deny. Turn.

How to resist the ajar,
the barely closed?

Is what emerges
expelled or escaped,

free or released?
Resistant as always,

I swivel,
pause to inhale.

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David on August 16, 2019 at 7:03 am said:

I got some wind in my belly
from gasping

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- robert okaji on August 16, 2019 at 8:50 am said:
  
  Be careful with that wind!
  
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  - David on August 16, 2019 at 8:51 am said:
    
    If I were a tree it would come after me. 🙂
    
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    - robert okaji on August 17, 2019 at 7:59 am said:
      
      Yes, it would! 😁
      
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Jazz Jaeschke on August 16, 2019 at 10:32 am said:

WOW … and whew!

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- robert okaji on August 17, 2019 at 8:00 am said:
  
  They are everywhere, opening, closing…
  
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Frank Hudson on August 16, 2019 at 11:12 am said:

Carl Sandburg said, and I agree:

“The peace of great doors be for you.
Wait at the knobs, at the panel oblongs,
Wait for the great hinges.”

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- robert okaji on August 17, 2019 at 8:01 am said:
  
  Oh, those great hinges! Everything depends on them!
  
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Dave Kingsbury on August 16, 2019 at 3:55 pm said:

Quite a weight behind the light touch here, Robert, though I smiled at the end at the thought it might be a revolving door …

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- robert okaji on August 17, 2019 at 8:02 am said:
  
  Thanks very much, Dave!
  
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rivrvlogr on August 16, 2019 at 6:31 pm said:

Or The Doors of Politics, just as well.

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- robert okaji on August 17, 2019 at 8:02 am said:
  
  Ha, but yes!
  
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Jilanne Hoffmann on August 16, 2019 at 8:37 pm said:

This is me most days. Thank you!

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- robert okaji on August 17, 2019 at 8:04 am said:
  
  There are always doors in my way, sometimes to my benefit. 🙂
  
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derrickjknight on August 17, 2019 at 7:14 am said:

We have a debate about doors. I’m in trouble for leaving them open. I say I leave them open to indicate that I don’t want to keep others out

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- robert okaji on August 17, 2019 at 8:05 am said:
  
  That is the question!
  
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