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This Is Us / perfect title zen

March 23, 2017 by Matt Hill Leave a Comment

words wind around us,
obscuring, diffusing,
piling atop each other like
snowflakes on snowflakes,
making seeing true meaning
hard through the white,
like moments in life

thus does This Is Us succeed,
not just as “quality entertainment”
(important in its way),
but more importantly, truly,
as a light to help
color through white,
making meaning in moments in life

and it starts
where it ends:
perfect title zen

This: the occurrences
Is: the nexuses
Us: the identity

just three words.
word times three.
a singular triplet.

it was all they needed,
all that is needed,
to crystallize, to clarify,
the medium, the message:
This.
Is.
Us.

it is a reminder to
we who inhabit this
world of white on white,
this world of
swirling, obscuring,
diffusing words,
like moments in life

it is the lesson that,
though less may not
always be more,
more meaning will
always be more,
and all the better
if it take less space

and in this universe
where brute,
unordered facts
constantly, consistently
cry for it,
meaning, perhaps,
coalesces most clearly
in that perfect title zen:

that name that
captures it all
in one hand

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