Category Archives: Pain



Who Cares?

Frankly, old age is a pain in the ass.
Just standing up engenders fat-knee creaks—
And the rich experience you’ve amassed
Does not assuage sciatica’s grim shrieks.
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Posted in Aging, Death, Inspiration, Pain, Politics

Life

At lunch, the other day, with three old friends
(More than three-hundred-twenty used up years),
Munching Chinese food, contemplating ends,
We drift, recalled old smiles and salted tears.
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Posted in Aging, Death, Friends, Pain

Humanity

They hunted, gathered, somehow stayed alive
They lived in caves, began resenting pain,
Evolved somewhat and grew a larger brain—
To satisfy an itch, learned how to wive.
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Posted in Death, Illusion, Pain, Religion, Vanity, Wisdom

Unbelievable!

Twenty-six people were murdered last week
By a bright, but awkward sociopath.
Twenty young children, were killed by a geek
Who added himself to his brute bloodbath
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Posted in Conformity, Death, Family, Pain, Religion

Haiku—Adam Lanza: Newtown, CT, 12/14/12

Awkward, bright, friendless,
Seething, seething his whole life.
Now let others seethe.
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Posted in Death, Pain, Vanity

Eileen

What, one reasonably asks, are poems for?
The answer’s not so simple. They must bloom
With color, fragrance, substance at the core—
With words that swim, reverberate, and croon.
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Posted in Aging, Death, Family, Pain, Poetry (What is it?), Words