A pear-sized puffball Found in a pipe Green eyes, pink nose, Tabby stripe Barn cat rescue From barn cat strife We took you away And we gave you a life…
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Mom is gone … Who again will ever sing “I love you, a bushel and a peck” while rinsing our heads with warm water in the bath? Who will make…
We lost a giant of a man this past weekend. Not a giant in stature, even though his was considerable, but a giant of quiet dignity, incredible strength and endurance,…
I completed my first round of radiation yesterday. The first of thirty-seven that will carry on until early March. It was a breeze and I anticipate nothing more inconvenient than…
I go to doctors and I hear words like aggressive and advanced bandied about and I try to let them go in one ear and out the other, but they…
My dreams are all Flying snakes and Tom Hanks Target runs and friends undone Giant fiends and movie scenes And loneliness And emptiness But I digress My dreams are all…
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Keep the cancer, fight the cancer, die with the cancer if you mustI took the cowards way out on bad adviceI let them cut out my libidoAnd with it; my…
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Sometimes I look up at the sky when I hear an airplane and I realize that it wasn’t all that long ago that there were no planes in the sky…
It was hard then to know just where you fit in and why should it be any different now? God knows I didn’t know where I fit in forty years…
A Play In One Act The Players: Abe Lincoln, a President Mary Todd Lincoln, a First Lady Charles Nelson Reilly, a Thespian Scene: Heaven, The Lincoln Home specifically, on the…
When you were a kid did your neighborhood friends ever gather for a pickup game of football in an open field on an early autumn Saturday afternoon? And did you…
I used to write stuff. I used to paint pictures too. Some of it, occasionally, wasn’t half-bad. It takes head and heart and soul to do anything creative. The best…