alive
staying alive
i was emphatic in my plea to gene my uber driver
that faith+meaning are one +the same i.e., finding
meaning making meaning of everything gene nodded
solemnly as he drove me away from death bedding and
palm trees
cormac mccarthy said: the dead would take the living
with them if they could and we would certainly hold
them fast a tug of war for fisher kings finding meaning
not for sissies think jack nicholson bellowing YOU CAN’T
HANDLE THE TRUTH or picture me
but with hook firmly planted in cheek a cheeky final
pronouncement: i’m outta here bitches no more family
gatherings where heathen circle the promised land those
shining bottles of casked whiskies staying alive anesthesiology
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..we spoke easily and I was humbly honored to walk with him
deep in that world where he was a man..
..i saw how all things false fall from the dead..
(Cormac McCarthy Suttree 1979)
FALL 2018
songanddancegirl 