ANGELS
THEY WERE LIKE ANGELS
RUNNING AROUND IN FLIP FLOPS!
Said someone not in the habit of waxing whimsical
Quite the contrary Usually a diehard Schopenhauerian
with a penchant for down: you don’t get me I turned
the lights out 5 yrs. ago I’m not pretending to have a
life Yet today there he was tossing out limericks on:
Grace does Lace He even used rainbow twice in the
same sentence
G does L 2 blonde Australian girls who can fly when
they’re not seducing middle-aged depressives with their
pent up joy I hate them already One will likely have a
cameo at my next wedding (they sell 150 wedding gowns
a minute!!) Trust me an exclamation mark has never found
its way into his syntax
So what’s different about today? His friend’s brother lay in an
upstairs room slowly dying of Legionnaires Disease In a dream
he called out: Save me! Save me! Too late the ambulance carted
his ghost away In real life he lives to fight another day
In his youth a legend in the shetl A tough Lenny Brucer Introduced
phony Beatlemania boys to Springsteen+Lou He’s 68 yrs. old never kissed
a girl Tomorrow eve Grace does Lace will do his ghost in Shopey’s dream
Small town hero will wake with a smile There will be a rainbow Full umbra!
#wouldntshitya
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death, he said, let it come,
it was after the races,
zipper on pants broken,
$80 winner, he vomited
and got back into bed with her.
(Charles Bukowski 1972)
Almost April 2017 RIP DEREK WALCOTT 87 poet Nobel Prize laureate muse died today my copy White Egrets stolen from car along with 6 mths. of poetry 2011
