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***(lyrics of Leonard Cohen)
A
day after being dead
drunk
I rise. People clap
and
chatter,
amazed
at my resiliency.
I
co..
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Summer
break for fourth graders,
I
challenge my friend Larry
to
a race from the back of our Dodge
to
the open gate by ..
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***
The
end of school year, my
brother
brings home his
science
lab white rat for a pet.
Cute
and snugly, soft..
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***
Here
in Oklahoma
the
clouds are low and swirling.
We
have been warned.
Another
day of severe weather,
another
day of..
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***Wheredo the daysgo, to wheredoes lifedisappear?I've seen the sunseton eras, silentmovies giving wayto talkies,rim shotsto canned guffaws,live TV gi..
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••Published by Autumn Sky Poetry 5-9-24
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"I
don't know"- those
are
magic words
when
said by my mechanic.
I
want to dance a jig, wear
my
four-leaf clover. I..
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***
Back
then, I didn't know
Seiko
from Gitmo; All I knew
was
Timex and clip-on ties,
white
polyester short sleeve
s..
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***
(“I
hated that dog,” wrote Noem.)
I’m
on my way to the Lakers game. Ahead,
a blue VW SUV is drivingway
too agg..
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*To be published on New Verse News 5-9-24.
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