Category Archives: Death



At The Paddle Tennis Courts: Requiem For Michelle

One day Michelle, and her English bulldog
Ginger, came to the courts to learn the game.
Blonde, tall—nuanced slender curves stoked fierce flames
Among the benched old men who watched her jog.
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Posted in Beauty, Death, Pain

How?

I sit here, determined to write
Some lyric verse
Celebrating joy
With, perhaps, a comic lilt.
I squeeze my brain
To press out juice
Sweet with cheer,
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Posted in Death, Greed, Pain, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Today's News, War

Insomnia

Each day I limp down to the courts
At nine o’clock and after noon,
Sit on a bench with aged cohorts
To tease and joke, kill time, commune.
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Posted in Aging, Death, Illusion, Pain, Wisdom

Moral Obscenity

What, one wonders, constitutes a moral
Obscenity? It means, I guess, disgust,
Unwillingness to constrain a quarrel
To bitter foes refusing to adjust.
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Posted in Death, Pain, Politics, War

Modern History

Today, in Baghdad,
Car bombs killed
Twenty-eight humans
And wounded eighty-eight more.
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Posted in Death, Religion, Today's News, War, Words

The Latest News

It’s a holiday weekend,
And I’d like to write
Some joyous verse.
But reality rules.
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Posted in Death, Today's News