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Archive for the day “August 8, 2013”

ABSENCE DOES

ABSENCE  DOES  NOT       MAKE

A freezing early  early Spring day

freak    storm   His feet froze  & had     to be warmed

Walking was difficult   the light at the

end of the tunnel went out   The snow

melted within an hour   And now he is

light years away   with the shadow of

a heart   etched into his left hind leg

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Late Summer  2013

GROW

GROW    A  PAIR

There is a giant Angel at the foot of Parliment St.

She has white wings   & looks navigational   I wonder

if she hovered over the asphyxiated brothers  bereft

& impotent  like the rest of us   Will she point us in the

direction of our next saviour?   Gruff & messianic like

Roy Cohn  in  Angels?   A much fallen Jew  who  threw

the switch on *Ethel in 1953   Late last night the      Parliment St.   Angel

handed out   2nd chances   Today she will swallow your

mother’s sighs  & return the children of Hamelin Newtown    one at a time

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*After the normal course of three electric shocks, attendants removed the strapping and other equipment only to have doctors determine that Mrs. Ethel Rosenberg had not yet died (her heart was still beating). Two more electric shocks were applied, and eyewitnesses reported that smoke rose from her head.  (June 19, 1953)

Late Summer  2013

 

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