Best Lifers Poems

50 years ago I would have said
life was swollen with promise
as I awaited your return
from a land of bicycles,
Pagodas, potato vendors
and "Hiah, Hiah, Mushee, Mushee,
Hononea, Hononea."*

40 years ago the struggle
almost killed us both,
swimming against the current
of babies, bottles, bills
and dreams swept away.

30 years ago, life...

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My old friend called today,

30 years now he's been away.

jus said hello n he is well n fine.

n through the years,our friendship,

he's kept,in his heart,n alive in his mind.

recalling the days we ran hard,wild, n fast,

knowin we goin down young,our lives won't last,

jus takin it...

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