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Talking Mirrors

I’m a fairly active charter member
of Connecticut’s Medical Marijuana Program,
qualifying because I’m also one of the oldest HIV+ survivors in the U.S.

In fact,
not a single cell within my entire organism
would have been brought to you today
without the miracles of chemistry.

So blame Big Pharma,
you would not be the first
but perhaps could become the last.
You never know

We might recreate a cooperative bottom-line
engaging an international profiting me corporation
prepared to listen to prophetic angry people
as if we might become wealthier prescribers
for healthier climates
and cultures,
rather than mere consumers of contentious therapies.

Anyway, I’ve been sick off and on,
mostly on,
since the beginning of November
so I’ve also been pretty much stoned.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, I’m not sure
Probably both.
I’m also may be the oldest HIV+ Taoist survivor
and Taoists annoyingly need to pretend both sides of the mirror
might have worthwhile reflective potential.

WuWei quasi-fortunately,
rather than being too sick to get stoned,
I’m too stoned to imagine I’m sick.

Despite being retired,
and increasingly tired,
I don’t have time to be sick anyway,
in large part because my youngest of four kids
is a girl with wicked Oppositional Defiant disorders;
a label she defies

Not because she’s opposed to orderly labels,
but because she thinks she is perfectly ordered
when the rest of us losers get with her program.

She likes President Trump’s redness
and orangeness
and the whole MAGA culture
because he looks and sounds familiar enough to eat

Like red meat
grabby economic sinners
and prehensile political leaders
make the greatest bottom feeders.

For my young teenage daughter,
defiance is not a disorder,
it is a counter-cultural religion
(practiced at Make America White Again rallies
by evangelical nationalists)
into which she was baptized
by Fetal Alcohol full immersion
at a first trimester young embryonic age.

From her I have learned
there fortunately is no wimpy God,
but we do have one hell of a fire-breathing feminist Goddess
when we refuse to help her clean her nightmare
she calls her imperial White House,
but I call what’s left of her bedroom.

I tried to point out the inconsistency
of supporting a President
who refuses to help us clean our planet,
or even avoid mutually terrorizing civility destruction,
but this, apparently, is like the voice of a wimpy God
who does not,
and should not,
keep on defying the Fire Goddess
right might hand
of your life doesn’t matter
much.

This morning I was helping her get ready for school,
combing out her spiky hair.
She’s part dark porcupine.
We were standing in front of a large wood-framed, beveled mirror
that looks, perhaps only because I’m stoned,
like something out of Snow White,
associated with her StepMom,
the witchy queen with
Make Me Great Again
oppositional defiant disorder.

My daughter appreciates Snow White,
probably because she bossed around the seven dwarfs
in their own domestically peaceful home,
(a politically incorrect position
we might best not even think of trying to get away with)
and forced them to listen to her own crappy music preferences
at a full amphitheater range of ear-splitting volume.

Be that as it too loudly may,
I asked her if she ever talks to her mirror,
asking, Who is the fairest of them all?

Yes.

And, does the mirror talk back?

Yes. It says,
You need to fix them!

That’s strange.
My mirror has been saying the same thing
ever since the last
oppositionally defiant election.

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Complexities of Consciousness

Herein, this evolutionary positive psychologist’s voice
is not that of +1 ethos enlightening Source
dominating +/-(0) eros empowering Resource

Positive neuropsychological progression
does not support monotheistic ethos
+1 overpowering +/-(0)
panentheistic eros
original dispassionate sin preservation

Dissociative anti-pantheistic eros bias
leaning toward the anthro-ethos privileged side,
while bodhisattva ecologicians
balance +1 ethos = +/-(0) eros
symbiotically equi-valent choice

In which
neurosystemic organisms
virtuously integrate our health-caring
cobinary best
to play Win/Win
+1 CrownEthos MonoCulturing
safe and belonging
within +/-(0) RootEros PolyCulturing
caste-abolishing co-redemption.

MisBehavior Management:
The safest AnthroCrown enlightened survival strategy
requires relearning to mind ethotic
+1 mono-humanistic consciousness

AND

Compassionate Communication EcoTherapy:
Our most resilient EarthRoot empowering thrival strategy
regenerates embodied +/-(0) erotic
pan/en-theistic felt awareness

Universally woke Ethos
transcendently uniting
intimate Eros.

Ethos requires a discipline
that often sees
a seizing mindless ritual
to acquire integrative eros flow,
at first climax feeling overwhelming joy
rich with amusing nuanced truths,
senses,
expressions,
analogies,
integrity,
vibrancy,
androgyny,
buoyancy,
bliss,
even peak crown-rooting loss
of clear-cut ego boundaries.

Together, these CrownEthos with RootEros conversations,
about ecologically healthy love,
slow-grow uniting integrity

Deductive-vertical crown-mind
enlightening root-body
bi-lateral oppositional thoughts
and
Inductive-horizontal root-body
empowering crown-mind
to recognize, and appreciate, elder right
bi-cameral appositional feelings

Con-spiraling evolutionary resilient communication flow
wherein Crown/Root universal ethotic compassion
co-arises
Root/Crown unitarian co-erotic pleasure.

As each maturing person
learns to fluidly refocus Here/Now universal compassion,
we can, together, co-redeem bodhisattva resilient pleasure

And,
as we all learn,
through ecologically healthy relationships
to fluidly focus and verbally communicate
Crown/Root harmonic
ethos/eros win/win wokeness,
our Anthropocene challenges
will turn EarthTribe’s flowing tide
toward universally resonant compassion
uniting integrally resilient peaceful pleasure
within our shared interdependent Crown/Root
climatic web of love-life healthy flow

CrownPassion v RootPleasure
business as anthro-privileged usual
continues severance
of economically dispassionate ethos
from politically dissociative eros

Unable to sustain democratically healthy relationships
and, oh yes,
resiliently wealthy EarthCare co-investments.

Nor will we know how to positively progress evolution
toward greater polyculturing complexity
unless our ethotic consciousness becomes more pleasure co-empathic

Nor will we polypathically feel how to
therapeutically flow toward greater regenerative depolarization
away from greater degenerative polarization
without comprehensively engaging our crown/root co-energetic balance
to become more integratively extended
ethos strong Sages
favoring eros flow Muses

Wu-wei dancing safe
midway belonging love songs.

As monotheistic anthropocentric individuals
we can less easily advocate a certain preference for complexity
or accommodate discontinuous opportunities
to help healthy and wealthy evolution along

As panentheistic interdependent
neurosystemic organisms
we can more fully occupy our regenerative
cooperative AnthroCrown/EarthRoot
transformative polypathy

Transforming primal cobinary relations
in-between
neurological compassionate minds
within
ecological embodied pleasure
in universal love ethos
and unitarian health eros

Whole EarthTribe nurturing
complexly interwoven
inter-religious opportunities.

Note: Some positive psychology statements are drawn from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, as is the title of this piece, pp 169-170, The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium, 1993. With deep ecological appreciation.

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Autocracy of Racist EcoPolitics

A caste preservationist favors separation
of White from NonWhite races.

Racists come in two varieties,
but both behaviorally support White privileged apartheid,
if not in what we liberally say
about capitalism’s free
and irresponsible speech marketing way
then in what we conservatively do

Too comfortable with neighbor-hooded
apartheid school
and patriarchal church
historical monoculturing segregation
practicing our habitual systemic trauma
combative politics of xenophobic mistrust.

Racists favor separation of positive light
v negative dark eumemic cultures
to perpetuate economic
and political partisan praxis
of ChosenPeople irreligious superiority

An ongoing “upper-self” v “lower-othered”
disempowering
unenlightened “winner” v “loser”
systemic trauma narrative.

There is no authentic empowerment side
of love
in this history of racist segregation
because we are all apartheid losers
when we prefer to fly apart

And stronger when we fly together
more polyculturally inter-religious
deep listening enriched

By our choices for inclusive community investment,
when and where we seek divine empowerment
of MotherNature’s cooperative multicultured purse?
rather than monotheistic business
as win v lose 0-sum
northern light v southern dark
anthro-privileged
bipolar
oppositionally defiant
caste-preserving usual

Competing to defend
birthright v birthwrong
long separated standing
in life’s lesser survivalist
v greater thrivalist
apartheid pecking order

A dull monoculturing defensive position
within Win v Lose strategic oppositions,
entirely inappropriate for organic Gaia’s
WinAnthroWealth/WinEarthHealth
polyculturing positive eumemic
pronoia

Healthier and wealthier
and wiser resonant opportunities together
than dissonantly risky
xenophobic paranoid behavior
caste apart.

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Color Blind

Some people say they don’t see color
or caste.

I look for others who do see color
and want to make rhapsodies together
with symphonic us.

I long to see more multiculturing colors
and less monocultural monochromatic
white v black monotheistic responsibility
for opportunities at-risk
among those organically gifted mammals
who don’t believe a colorful Earth
could sacredly matter.

Some people see color and say “Why?”
Yet when we can see that same color
within a prism’s octave unity,
wisdom might well engage “Why not!?”

Ask not what your eagle nation’s indigenous coloring can do for you;
ask what your wise owl poly-colored relationships can do
for our way too straight beige nation.
Or, even better, ask both eagle and owl
light perception and night wisdom
as if co-arising spectral passions
and non-violent resonance.

Some people say they don’t see
or hear
or feel color
but have no problem remembering their own,
and how they are
and are not
appreciated for diverse symphonic opportunities.

I look for those who do see color
and hope to make far more wisdom of it
than I could ever imagine
monoculturally alone
monotheistically lonely
monochromatically white
as an unholistic ghost.

With apologies to John F. Kennedy, taking issue with Ronald Reagan black and white reruns.

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Hope For Global Peace

Active Hope every day
and normal night
consciously engages
Business as Organic-CoOperative Usual,
revolving ecosystemic evolutions
extending bi-hemispheric climate health,
rather than pathologically devolving
from disorganic competitive exhaustion.

Climate healthy evolution
leads toward Active Faith
in our more cooperative organic deep-learning landscapes,
our ecopolitical potential futures,
flying together rather than falling anticlimatically apart.

Active Faith in ecotherapeutic landscapes,
both internal and external climates,
leads to Active Love
of timeless fusions,
eternal ecoconsciousness
of blissful interdependent time
among our most integrity evolving humanity
with EarthTribal Self-With-Others TransGenerational Memory,
from Elders past through Futures
of ProActive Lovers
polyculturing healthier pronoia-wealthy climates.

Active
climate justice evolves inter-religious
trauma-informed
peace-keeping
caste-abolishing win/win hope
rather than devolving
dissonant
anthropocentric despair.

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Money Where Your Mouth Was

Jesus help me,
cried organic Mother Earth
to Adam’s sacred Sun,
I can’t be birthin’ all these anthro-privileged babies,
gettin’ on,
you know…
Makes me sad.

From “Mother Earth’s Laboratory Journal”,
self-publishing in my mind

Money, like fertility,
wanting multisensory anticipation
needing evangelical attention
to continue regeneratively thriving,
iconic DNA of wealth
rooted in cooperative RNA
prehistoric health values.

MotherEarth’s globally cooperative fueled economy
with two primal thermodynamic rules;

  1. you cannot have one without the other,
    so they co-arise,
    but reverse-correlationally
  2. ebbing and flowing dipolarity,
    yanging and yinning
    dynamic not not(0)-Tao
    potential for win/win
    nondualistic integrity.

First SunFather Yang-LeftBrain
economically ecological
evolutionary anthropocentric
thermodynamic half-rule:
to thrive, neuro-networks
sustain synergetic-dominant
WholeSystem cooperative political function
to maintain authentic EgoMind’s.
monotheistically passionate
sacred individual identity

First EarthMother Yin-Elder RightBrainStem
ego/eco-therapeutic cobinary half-rule:
to survive, organic systems long to reproduce,
to remain an organically interdependent entity
within a multi-regenerating Whole Living EcoSystem
of pantheistic economic integrity,
anticipating EcoBody’s health wealthing
integrally cooperative
co-empathically organic
communion pleasure

You see, pantheistic Yin, like RightBrain intuitive intelligence,
has no Yangish self-identity supremacist voice.
But, if she did,
we might call her Gaia Pronoia Nature,
regenerative integrity
like DNA-iconic fractal-dialectical synergy

Earth empowering Right/Left
East/West bi-hemispheric ReVolution
ReVision
ReLigion
ReWeaving 4D WinWin Self-Reiterating
Prime not 1 not (0)Riginal Passion/Pleasure
cobinary panentheistic 1 EgoMind encompassing (0) EcoBody
positive pronoia ecopolitical correlations

ReGeneratively Tao Balanced.

First Evolutionary Thermodynamic Principle of ReGenerative EcoSystems,
invites pantheistic cooperative Right OVER LeftBrain competitive monotheism
to sustain primal climate regenerativity.

Science is all about Yang-deductive reductive
commensurably resonant anthropocentric-only facts please,
and is therefore less positive WholeSystem healthcare clear
about why some individual cells are mutually attracted,
rather than dismayed

What keeps anthropocentric monotheistic mindbodies united
in a pantheistically positive healthy ecotherapeutic system?

Indigenous SunFather wisdom
knows atomically synergetic geometric cobinary associations,
ergodic-rhythmic patterns of wave-linear co-gravitation
co-arising double-fractal resonantly resilient energy octaves
perpetually reviving double-bound bilateral systemic bodies
with bicamerally networking minds
exploring health wealthing
EarthMother synergetic phenomena.

Polycultural wealth sciences remind us
to keep mono-sapient selves within a self-perpetuating state
by consuming exactly as much empowering resonant energy
as 0-sum required
to produce enlightened economic resilience.

To try to store Patriarchal more,
will only lead to further Matriarchal losses
of sustainably synergetic EgoMind/EcoBody futures.

Jesus help us, sighed Mother Earth,
this ain’t no merciful way
to survive climate rebirth.

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The Daily Show, 2016

I enjoyed revisiting this piece published 9 years ago, almost to the cold December day. Inspired by a blonde Texas Bombshell advocate for the first TrumPublican administration.

Dear Toni,

I saw you on The Daily Show
the other day
having your way
with Trevor,
or was it the other way around?
Not sure.

I’m also not sure where we first went wrong,
but I’m sorry for once having thought you my dumb blonde beauty.
Clearly this is not who you are
as you continue to play our family’s conservative version
of Twinkle Twinkle Patriotic Star
and Patriarchal Stripes,
Flags and National Anthems.

Slow as deep rich honey,
if you wrap yourself any tighter
in our conservative-at-risk Patriotic Flag,
I worry you might not find enough healthy air
to breathe both in and out
long-term regenerativity.

I began hearing you as not just narcissistic
and uncaring about the health and security of my Galveston grandkids,
not to mention our whole extended family
of white male and female children
along coastal Texas over the next 100 years,
but sometimes I think you still confuse healthy conservatism,
which goes way back in our matriarchal nurturing days and ways,
with what sounds more like nihilistic condemnation
of any robustly humane future
for resilient economic wealth
and politically empowering ecological health,
nondually co-arising like Grandmother Moon
and Gaia Earth,
who gave birth to matriarchally conservative nurturing humanity,
and therefore also still organically healthcaring biosystemic you,
my honey sweet smart girl.

I wish you had spent less time defending your right to freely express your mind and feelings,
which, indeed, brother Trevor was not contesting,
so you could have spent more time sharing your mindfulness
about our healthy and secure future,
which continues to be at degenerative risk
by relentlessly too much LeftBrain dominant
white male plutocratic abomination,
as if federalist (not nationalist) Christian Enlightenment ForeFathers
would have wished to see my grandkids
moving from Galveston,
toward Houston,
our future southern U.S. frontier
of new-coastal engulfing waters.

Setting aside your distaste for all things Progressive-Futuristic,
including the vastly dusty tomes of academically orthodox science
and LeftBrain dominant deductive-only rational facts,
and evidence of both polyculturally climaxing
and anti-ecosystemically degenerating global realities
about climate warming urgent pathologies,
even setting all this aside,
please review our U.S. conservatively patriotic
Right of Left Progressive-Liberal
devil’s advocate historical-cultural agenda.

Somehow I think you lost the first chapter
of Gaia’s Matriarchal WoManual.

Avoid inappropriate touch and speech at all times;
but also loosen up a little,
embrace therapeutic touch and speech favoring
win/win bilateral-cobinary strategies,
as if you are positive
that all organic life and death matters
for future healthy body pleasure
and wealthy mind compassion.

Please avoid merely repeating past pious nonperforming
benighted tropes,
as if beautiful empowered women were merely dumb blind blondes
frivolously disconnected
from humanity’s sapient
ecologically multiculturing marketplace
of healthy values
and impoverishing disvalues.

I appreciate that you do not see yourself
as a victim of history,
but more as a victorious Devil’s Advocate,
and I love it when you mention this
despite U.S. women receiving Constitutional enfranchisement rights
a few decades after Black males.

And no one in the Good Ole Boys Club
ever accused Black males
of being more privileged
and appreciated
than white women.

Darlin’,
how on Mother Earth do you think we received this right to vote
for Donald Trump,
who apparently has no work experience history
of public sector administration
suggesting in might possibly qualify
to actually defend and protect the U.S. Constitution

And the right to sabotage your own best,
healthiest
and happiest constitutionally protected interests,
by voting for a Secretary of State
and former U.S. Senator
who appears to have the more promising work experience
to become the first woman U.S. President?

Do you think our patriarchal faithful Fathers
climbed off our bedded Mothers
and said,
Oh, yes, you want it?
Sure. Here, it’s yours.

How do you think your rant
against marchers and protesters
sometimes shouting Women’s Lives Matter Too,
your stark disapproval of those who physically demonstrate
that they do not share your trust-felt experience
with our rather too religiously dear U.S. Flag
and Straight White Patriotic-Only-Need-Apply Anthems,
as heard within post-millennial virtual realities
of Devil’s RightWing Trauma Advocate?

How do you think your active disbelief
in the economic and political necessity,
or even historical effectiveness,
of strident speaking
and confrontational marching
in public and private spaces and times
would feel to your maternal Elders
during the post Civil War era,
who had no other means to speak their truth
to paternal power?

Perhaps, upon historical reflection,
these voices may sound not quite so whiney
to your indigenously wise ears?

I am sorry to say,
as I boundlessly love you,
and always will,
I am quite sure your conservative great great grandmother
would be pissed as hell at this,
her post-millennial offspring,
playing at Daddy Trump Devil’s Advocate

Joining the delusional LeftBrain dominant
paternalistic plutocratic team,
after her generation so vigorously marched
and protested for this opportunity for you
to vote for our first well-qualified
public sector experienced
woman U.S. President
of a bicamerally healthing
environmentally wealthing
ecologically informed U.S.A.

Your Virtual UnReality Shows
you learned well to help yourself stay away
from inappropriate touch and speech of others
you feel a reactionary need to overpower,
but have yet to begin
this deeper maternal ecotherapy
to always and everywhere compassionately touch and speak
through Mother Earth’s cooperatively sustaining climates
and landscapes of health and safety
worthy of your positive nurturing
(commensurable with eco-politically progressive historical integrity)
for all EarthTribe’s multiculturally resilient future regenerations.

Don’t date yourself so much
as an anti-feminist blonde beauty
overly glutted with this conservative misogynistic
racist
homophobic
RightWing ecosystemically traumatizing hegemony,
featuring Earth’s Desecrated Anthropocene

Longing for a more comfy republican story
of General Eisenhower’s post-war presidency,
as yummy as that was
for producing commercial properties
like Marilyn Monroe.

But, this is your Toni time.
Seize it.
CoArise with your cooperative matriotic duties
to speak wisdom
to LeftBrain/RightWing
evangelical TrumPublican propaganda players.

I’ll still be up here,
advocating for at least 7 healthy generations of love,

GrandMother Moon

(ebbing my Yang sway
to flow Earth’s more Yintegrally enlightened day)

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Solomon’s Question

Solomon,
hate to disturb you
but I have a question.
If I could grant you only one deepest love wish
for what you would achieve as your greatest strength
which virtue would you choose?

Well, thanks.
Great question.
Do we have such powers? I wonder.
What have others asked for?
Information about popular precedents,
including old age resilient outcomes,
could be helpful.

Some of the more popular gift requests
you already have covered,
in large part by being born into wealthy royalty,
but also endowed with those tall,
dark,
and handsome genes,
and your unusually resonant internal strengths
that will sustain your exterior beauty.

Top requests
include unilateral power over others,
to get one’s most effective
and efficient controlling way.

Then there is also unitarian power with others,
to invite our most authentic
inclusively cooperative compassionate way,
more popular with unstraight
unwhite
unmale polyamorous transgendered
human sapients.

Then there are requests for fame,
although these seldom, if ever,
seem to arrive as requests for love of fame,
suggesting some confusion between virtuous values
and vicious disvalues

Committing minds with bodies to fame’s opportunities
comes with traumatizing risks of vicious infamy,
emotionally malnourished neglect
and, too often, mind and/or body abuse
of empowered condemning authorities,
habitually threatening to withhold investments
in more positively valued
deep listening
democratically dialectical
powering-with affections.

Choosing wealth of unilateral fame
for a well-knowledged mind,
well-skilled
and bountifully beautied body,
will attract both passionately pleased admirers
and enviously displeased dissenters.

The stronger this public fame
the more concomitant private concerns develop
about personal future infamy,
loss of autocratic altitude,
and, with this chronic anxiety,
a growing sense of merely going through productive motions
without sustaining consumption of passionately engaging emotions,
more associated with greater love of wisdom’s resiliently healthy bodies
with resonantly democratic wealthy minds.

In the older age end, then,
it seems we have no other rational outcome choice
but love of regenerative power-with positive reputation
defending against my lust for power-over negative disputation

Wisdom balancing LeftBrain’s deductive powers
engaging virtuous ecological systems
are also Elder RightBrain’s inductive powers
with analogically co-arising
ecopolitical sapient wisdom.

Do we have such powers?
I remain in sacred wonder,
to engage wisely virtuous organic choices
more democratically empowering together,
rather than more infamously disheveled apart.

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Democracy v Autocracy

Is there a difference between human wisdom
and divine wisdom,
or are these the same?

Do empowering love
and enlightened wisdom always and everywhere nondually co-arise,
like yin and yang primal co-relationship?

So long as we have the wisdom to remain clear about what is love
incarnating cooperatively
and what is lust
distracted by monocultural competitions
seeking monotheistically entitled power-over,
when and where only polyamorous power-with
could possibly result in wisdom’s wealth
as healthy WinWin resilient outcomes.

Different,
because multicultural comprehensions of wisdom
often fail to achieve polyculturally co-empowering greatness,
stepping into history with cooperative ecosystemic fame
rather than outrageous competitions in egocentric infamy,
without co-arising love of polypathic health
sufficient for organically democratic ecopolitical wealth.

To become a great lover
without so much wisdom
is to become known, at best,
as a profoundly unsatisfied luster
to control other people’s,
and even all EarthTribe’s,
cooperative enlightenment power.

Jesus of Nazareth had something to say
about non-Solomonic powers
distracted from love of wisdom
by lust to hoard vast wealthy stores of power
to vainly secure oneself against future drains away
from reviving, cooperatively invested, organic wealth.

Such autocratic lust corrupts love’s wise inter-religious potential
for democratically comprehensive powers
accessible within each healthy, peace-invested, polypathic Ego.

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ReCentering Hope

I lay to waste
Earth-centered
omnisciently questioning life,
overindulging Anthro-preoccupied
questing enlightened faith

Wasting Anthro-centered
wealthy sacred life,
overindulging Ego-preoccupied
healthy organic lust

Wasting Ego-healing opportunities
for Earth-centered healthy love,
greedily grabbing for immortality

Laying to waste
Earth-centered
omnipotently questioning life,
overindulging Anthro-preoccupied
power questing fame

Wasting Anthro-recentering
wealthy organic life.

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