Angel Chicago Poems

FOR PAM


On this Spring night. I would love to take you to dinner,
Because,no matter what,you did treat me like a winner.
We both were as different,as...

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I thought today I could make it work

it wasn’t so much the sadness

as lightness

as bottled crocodiles and persimmon fungi

as broken arrows across the ascended 

the...

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December 14, 1965           

"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Growing up with an angel that loved me.
Hovering close,with cane, walking.
Me, on a tricycle to the candy store,
Bright summer days I cannot ignore.

Though decades have...

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The paedophiliac? 

I sat on a park bench beside another old man
we saw a beautiful 17 years old girl walking past
and I said: we can’t...

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We are the sum of experiences that we encounter as we go through life. Day to day struggles and triumphs are experienced by all of...

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In the late 60's in 'the second city', on the south side at 43rd and Calumet,         ...

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My Faraway Angel is always with me,
I close my eyes, and there she will be.

Part of my heart in such a way,
A smile like sunshine,...

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Every rooftop was covered in fluff.
Icicles dripping their cold all around,
That first white Christmas was a wonderful sight.
Winter remembers that cold Chicago night.

Christmas eve came...

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