STILL LIFE
-On your bed
of winter dust,
you still remember
best-forgotten best friends,
and that shiny Studebaker
that could outdistance
all pain…
— “The Cuban dynamo moved one step closer
— to the welterweight championship, as he
— danced his way to an easy…”
-‘I’m sorry…
It was too advanced,
we did all we could…’
— “No doubt the general’s dismissal is a
— direct result of his divergence of views
— with those of the president, on how the
— police action…”
-What the hell!
one more… for the road,
even mothers have to die…
(I can find another job.)
— “While in Hyannisport the celebration
— went on until the wee hours…”
-‘Dearest one,
I don’t love you anymore…’
— “From his Texas White House, the president
— called an emergency session of the Security
— Council, presumably to deal with the increased…”
-Bartender,
I beg forgiveness…
when I was a kid
I threw a rock
at a drunk.
1970 or ’71
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