Things I’ve learned

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Things I’ve learned

by Beau Beausoleil 

The best 
way to 
commit 
suicide 
is to 
keep 
living 

The best way 
to keep living 
is to 
think about 
the smallest
fragments
of light 
and how 
they gather
beauty

We have
marked
some days 
with love 
and other 
days 
with simple
gestures
of affection 

I only saw
the shadow 
of a bird
when you 
flew away
“Bud” Photo courtesy of Lindsey Morrison Grant
Author

Beau Beausoleil

Beau Beausoleil is a poet and activist based in San Francisco, California. He is the co-editor of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here. He is the author of 15 books of poetry. Forthcoming is a chapbook of poems, The Killing of George Floyd (Intermittent Press 2023).

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