Visual artist, sculptor, and educator Su Begy speaks with Siena about grief, play, and the connective tissue that forms the mysterious collective “us.”

Su’s Work:https://www.susanbegy.com/

I Am WaitingBy Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I am waiting for my case to come up and I am waitingfor a rebirth of wonderand I am waiting for someoneto really discover Americaand wailand I am waiting for the discoveryof a new symbolic western frontier and I am waiting for the American Eagleto really spread its wingsand straighten up and fly rightand I am waitingfor the Age of Anxietyto drop deadand I am waitingfor the war to be foughtwhich will make the world safefor anarchyand I am waitingfor the final withering awayof all governmentsand I am perpetually awaitinga rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the Second Coming and I am waitingfor a religious revivalto sweep thru the state of Arizona and I am waitingfor the Grapes of Wrath to be stored and I am waitingfor them to provethat God is really Americanand I am waitingto see God on televisionpiped onto church altarsif only they can find the right channel to tune in onand I am waitingfor the Last Supper to be served againwith a strange new appetizerand I am perpetually awaitinga rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for my number to be calledand I am waitingfor the Salvation Army to take overand I am waitingfor the meek to be blessedand inherit the earth without taxesand I am waitingfor forests and animalsto reclaim the earth as theirsand I am waitingfor a way to be devisedto destroy all nationalismswithout killing anybodyand I am waitingfor linnets and planets to fall like rainand I am waiting for lovers and weepersto lie down together againin a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the Great Divide to be crossed and I am anxiously waitingfor the secret of eternal life to be discovered by an obscure general practitionerand I am waitingfor the storms of lifeto be overand I am waitingto set sail for happinessand I am waitingfor a reconstructed Mayflowerto reach Americawith its picture story and tv rightssold in advance to the nativesand I am waitingfor the lost music to sound againin the Lost Continentin a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the daythat maketh all things clearand I am awaiting retributionfor what America did to Tom Sawyer and I am waitingfor Alice in Wonderlandto retransmit to meher total dream of innocenceand I am waitingfor Childe Roland to cometo the final darkest towerand I am waiting for Aphroditeto grow live armsat a final disarmament conferencein a new rebirth of wonder

I am waitingto get some intimationsof immortalityby recollecting my early childhoodand I am waitingfor the green mornings to come again youth’s dumb green fields come back againand I am waitingfor some strains of unpremeditated artto shake my typewriterand I am waiting to writethe great indelible poemand I am waitingfor the last long careless raptureand I am perpetually waitingfor the fleeing lovers on the Grecian Urn to catch each other up at lastand embraceand I am awaiting perpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder

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