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David Avidan

URGENTLY HAVE TO GIVE MYSELF

I urgently have to give myself additional opportunities now,
leave previous contingencies which have been implemented,
move toward new innovative opportunities, open possibilities.
At a certain stage I stopped supplying this vital need to myself.
I remembered only previous shipments, huge and abundant
and I innocently thought that the store of possibilities would never end.
I didn’t think about myself in conventional industrial concepts,
and so I supplied the raw material and the production plans at the same time.
Now delivery begins – one, two, three.
On trains and planes and cargo ships and semi-trailer trucks.
I supply myself with additional possibilities that won’t run out so fast.
I open hidden doors for myself and pass through them.
I signal the new options to reach me at record speed.

I urgently have to give myself additional opportunities now,
The earlier opportunities were more or less used up earlier.
My writing flows, and I meet nearly every challenge,
but that’s not what I’m looking for, I’m looking for new opportunities.
I’ll find them, don’t worry, I’ll find them.
They are waiting for me on my doorstep, they are waiting for me.
They know everything they have to about me – they have all the data.
They operate according to the data they have and according to essential information.
They are looking for me the way I look for them,
because I am their possibility just as they are my possibilities.

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URGENTLY HAVE TO GIVE MYSELF

I urgently have to give myself additional opportunities now,
leave previous contingencies which have been implemented,
move toward new innovative opportunities, open possibilities.
At a certain stage I stopped supplying this vital need to myself.
I remembered only previous shipments, huge and abundant
and I innocently thought that the store of possibilities would never end.
I didn’t think about myself in conventional industrial concepts,
and so I supplied the raw material and the production plans at the same time.
Now delivery begins – one, two, three.
On trains and planes and cargo ships and semi-trailer trucks.
I supply myself with additional possibilities that won’t run out so fast.
I open hidden doors for myself and pass through them.
I signal the new options to reach me at record speed.

I urgently have to give myself additional opportunities now,
The earlier opportunities were more or less used up earlier.
My writing flows, and I meet nearly every challenge,
but that’s not what I’m looking for, I’m looking for new opportunities.
I’ll find them, don’t worry, I’ll find them.
They are waiting for me on my doorstep, they are waiting for me.
They know everything they have to about me – they have all the data.
They operate according to the data they have and according to essential information.
They are looking for me the way I look for them,
because I am their possibility just as they are my possibilities.

URGENTLY HAVE TO GIVE MYSELF

I urgently have to give myself additional opportunities now,
leave previous contingencies which have been implemented,
move toward new innovative opportunities, open possibilities.
At a certain stage I stopped supplying this vital need to myself.
I remembered only previous shipments, huge and abundant
and I innocently thought that the store of possibilities would never end.
I didn’t think about myself in conventional industrial concepts,
and so I supplied the raw material and the production plans at the same time.
Now delivery begins – one, two, three.
On trains and planes and cargo ships and semi-trailer trucks.
I supply myself with additional possibilities that won’t run out so fast.
I open hidden doors for myself and pass through them.
I signal the new options to reach me at record speed.

I urgently have to give myself additional opportunities now,
The earlier opportunities were more or less used up earlier.
My writing flows, and I meet nearly every challenge,
but that’s not what I’m looking for, I’m looking for new opportunities.
I’ll find them, don’t worry, I’ll find them.
They are waiting for me on my doorstep, they are waiting for me.
They know everything they have to about me – they have all the data.
They operate according to the data they have and according to essential information.
They are looking for me the way I look for them,
because I am their possibility just as they are my possibilities.

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