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Live in the moment, we
exhort ourselves as well as others,
But
such a mandate is a fool’s errand, nothing more,
For
all which we en..
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They are like ants and roaches,
ubiquitous and constantly underfoot,
Nursing their lattes and
mocachinos on some sidewalk,
Dropping bits o..
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What God has put asunder, I have joined
together.
He
chuckles at this somewhat self-consciously,
As
his clientele is comprised of gen..
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He’d dated Madonna, you know;
(This before the tendency would
be to roll one’s eyes
And sigh Well, man, who didn’t?)
I..
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You’ll not
see their like come race season,
Having left
the premises to be replaced
By the
preening breast-augmented and face-l..
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We’d made things once, things of substance:
Copiers, straight-sixes for Chevelles, Novas, Impalas,
And tons of film, of course, lo..
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My regiment? The New York 156th,
B Company.
I’d left the farm in the hands of my wife and her uncle
(Polly and I never had childr..
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It is, in its own fashion, a
ballpark--there are dugouts,
(Though more kin to lean-tos if
the truth be told)
A fence with advertisemen..
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Back in the day before the game quit us,
We’d balled down at the rec center with an old guy
Who went by the name of Terry Easy.
He ..
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Ain't muchseparatin'junkies and geniuses;still, cat hit the ground right on the downbeat.
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