Till Turning, Turning We Come Round Right

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Turn mind to friends. Turn mind to daydreams. Turn

Your mind to books and beauties.  Turn to true,

Not TikTok vacuums* and turn to burn

Away the vape-ish Instagram.  Then strew

Your paths with wide intelligence and walk

With Mind again like human beings used

To do.  Turn back to Plato.  Turn your talk

From jabbered Rap.  Turn silliness suffused

With emptied words to Nietzsche and to Kant,

William Wordsworth by Henry Eldridge

To Einstein and to Wordsworth, and to worth.

Abandon as you turn the shouting rant

Of politicians, hatred giving birth.

  Turn back to art that looks like normal art.

    Turn back to purer forms of thought and heart.

*The poet pronounces this as a three-syllable word.