When in doubt,
go to your body first
avoid spirit like the plague.
Spirit unravels too many reasons.
Do not begin with the God
who created the physical,
then banished the body from church
except for the mouth and the ears.
Your body knows things God doesn’t know.
How could the abstract understand the concrete
without the mass of molecules quaking in the mirror?
Your body knows things you don’t know.
Like how to turn bread into flesh.
You do not need to understand the Doctrine of Transubstantiation
or the Krebs Cycle to make yourself out of crushed wheat and water.
You just eat. Your body does the rest.
The Golden Rule begins with doing,
not thinking,
not believing in some abstruse truth
but in practical tactical feeling-filled fact.
Ask your jaw how it would like to be punched
or your eye how it would like to be poked.
Go ahead,
ask.
Your body will answer honestly.
Then act accordingly,
body to body.
2015