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Beating Heart, Dancing Feet  

  Someone Much Like Us 


What did they eat?  What did they treasure
enough to build churches or statues or plazas?
What did they do through weeks of bad weather?

What was forbidden and still gave them pleasure—
that kept them confounded and not asking questions?
Where did they eat?  What did they treasure

enough to revere and so sent the peace maker?
What did they love that kept them amused and
where did they go those weeks of bad weather?

Whose scale was used when they needed a measure
of what had been lost, or who'd been too eager?
Who could they cheat; could they steal their treasure?

Did God rest above like a kindly caretaker
or were they aggressive, abstract, or dim-witted?
How did they travel in times of bad weather?

How did they spend their moments of leisure?
What clothes did they wear?  What traits did they favor?
Where did they go?  What did they treasure?
How did they live through those months of bad weather?



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