Carol Gano - Absent

Absent

Absent

Hollow?

No.

Gone Girl,

alone? no,

just invisible,

not fully present,

but mostly, just not.

Absent "oustay oo-senta" in Spanish.

Year six.

A "no show"

flat? no

missing, gone?

No! Never arrived.

Whomever hasn't come, is absent.

The majority of the population at any given time.

Fly away absent.

Here, there, everywhere.

NO, the opposite.

Can't DO absent.

What motivates someone to be absent?

end of life?

end of interest?

conflicting obligations?

lack of motivation?

agoraphobia?

SO MANY causes of absence:

sleep deprivation,

religious cults,

preferences.

Can one be fully present, while simultaneously being absent?

In the Dance. Yes.

Jump out, as in the dance, 'The hokey pokey"---------put your whole self in,

"put your whole self out"

That is absent, your W H OLE self is out:

of sync,

out of time,

out of it,

out just out,

out to lunch.

OR, As Obama said 'out' as he drops the microphone and walks away, despondent discouraged, done. Absent from this time forward.