Category Archives: Death



A Certain Time of Life

The house is paid for,
And pension flow secure.
The plumbing’s fixed.
The garden’s blooms in view.
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Posted in Aging, Death, Wisdom

Aurora, Colorado: July 20, 2012

Our first delight,
Doubtless,
Is mother’s flowing teat.
Then building blocks,
Candy bars,
Parental praise.
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Posted in Conformity, Death, Pain, Today's News

Tachycardia Haikus

Tachycardia!
What the hell is causing it?
Tremendous question.
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Posted in Aging, Death

A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Nature of Poetry

What is it that a poem’s supposed to do?
More, surely, than display the poet’s wit,
Project the pain of poets’ pious rue,
Or plump the bulky texts for English lit.
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Posted in Death, Lust, Poetry (What is it?), Today's News

Progress

In olden times
You stabbed a man
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Posted in Death, Today's News, War

Paradise?

Seventy-two unemployed, young virgins
Await you in paradise Ishmael
(The mullah promises)—and all your sins
Erased by feats your relatives retell—
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Posted in Death, Politics, Religion, War