Set Course

The love I don’t get
to live with her,
I am going to have to live
and attend, sublimely, through fiction,
there are only so many lives
to choose from,
to assume gracefully,
so many courses
upon which the sun rises
and sets.
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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.
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9 Responses to Set Course

  1. Something I’ve loved wholeheartedly since I discovered its truth was that we can always and forever change the course of where our sun sets and rises. There’s never a too late for that. Such a comforting thought.

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    • Agreed. This was more a “feeling,” not a personal philosophy 🙂

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    • I know that you, the Mistress of Wistfulness, gets that 🙂

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      • I get a lot of things I never even let on to. Ha.
        Mistress of wistfulness, hmmm

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      • Yes, I suspect slash intuit that there’s plenty you get and don’t let on to. Or I could say that I don’t let on to getting what you don’t let on to getting 🙂

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      • Um. I think you let on to getting things far before Ive gotten to the threshold of anything to get, before long youve carried me over the threshold into whatever there is in the future to get that I haven’t yet gotten and I’m tossed into the middle of getting it without warning.
        Then I have to play catch up in the world of getting things. 😔
        😛

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      • Those comments inspired me to repeat, what I’ve repeated before: Time is a funny business 🙂 And you, are a funny girl (take that as a compliment). But yea, sometimes I’ve “gotten” things in movies, that weren’t even there to be “gotten,” i.e., I’ve created something that wasn’t there, but that’s okay because at least it got me creating and imagining and sparked me into a go-getter’s paradise of my own crooked making 😉

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      • Well, one thing I was terrible at implying with that comment was, that you’re are far more astute than I am. The things you detect ‘get’ I never even realized existing until you point me that direction.
        This is a terribly round about way of giving you one of my highest compliments. 🤷‍♀️ Hey, let me simply say, thanks for your wisdom borne of life experience!

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      • You’re welcome, and thank you. Just ran into this beautiful quote, with which I’ll leave you before heading out, “Our purpose is that which we most passionately are when we pay attention to our deepest selves.” Carol Hegedus. Have a deeply and wonderfully soul-attentive day E.C.!

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