Long Old person Poems

It had been a hellish week.

On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.

This separation had been scheduled to...

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Time 


Did we think that time would always there for us?
An infinite amount of time to use as we please.

Never counting time.....and never thinking it would end

Did we ever doubt that someday time would be...

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He handed me the air-brushed t-shirt
and I thanked him, said I loved it.

He asked, Do you mean that?
I said, What would have possessed me
to utter it otherwise?

Then he kissed me with his sweaty upper lip,
through...

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" How old are you, professor?"* 

I turned around trying to locate the student who had
asked this unexpected question.

It was not hard to locate her. There she was smiling,
her hand up in the air.

" I...

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My life hasn't been easy 
I've experienced much pain. 

As a young child, I had a some- 
what of a normal childhood. 

I didn't have many issues, I 
came from a two-parent home. 

I knew...

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#Cemetery

When you grow older, dear dad, dear mum,
Instead of having your children and grandchildren running around in your home,
You'd have empty rooms filled with nothing but pictures hanging on the walls,
Nothing more, just darkness, emptiness...

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I suck at dying poems
Chemo poems, Metastatic Cancer poems,
Hair falling out in the shower poems
 
And I told a half truth
When I told you I could write you one
In less than six months (It's been...

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                On Faith


       Faith to follow as a blind human instinct,
   ...

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How did the phrase “Spitting Image” originate
Seems kinda gross to me
Now here's something I've often wondered about
Do Queens expectorate... surely Kings do
For that matter, they pass wind too
Some people... okay some men...
Make a big production...

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I left the pub one night in a bit of a tizzy
and saw some kind of being like a tin lizzie.
This turned out to be a polite alligator
now on probation for having eaten a waiter.
The...

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When you're young you think it will last forever and a day.

The future is not in your plans, just today and getting your homework done.

waiting for the weekend and summer vacation.

After you're through school you...

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Lord, hear my plea and my prayer,
I surrender my life to you;
wipe away my fears and tears, as I am broken.

I cannot face today without you at my side,
lost and hurt, confused and betrayed;
by life's...

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Big Marty Milano

Blue-veined sausage nose
slightly off center
toward the right side of
a florid cop face
white-gloved hands
directing traffic
to the piercing rhythm
of staccato blasts from
the black wooden whistle
clenched between his teeth

everyone called him
Big Marty Milano and
he conducted a...

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I'm trying to find that girl 
  Those eyes
 The one who saw it all but never got 
I dreamed I could be the girls that I saw
The ones whose lives seem to have...

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“I don’t know.
It’s been just one of those itchy
dry skin days 
where you know somethin’ has to happen
but it ain’t;
at least not chet.
I was expecting a call but
it hatn’t come either.
The ‘wild willies’ were settlin’
in...

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I look around 
And see everything here is changing. 
The homes, economy,  clothing, 
It’s moving on. 
I wish it would stay the same. 

They say it’s changing for the good, 
But there are so...

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Your words, harsh and cold
Muttered in a gust of irritation 
Perhaps brought on by the bug in your stomach
A plausible reason, of course
Ain't it always the way,
The perfectionist you placed on the pedestal yourself
Now she's...

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Before we left on our summer trip it was important for Deborah and me
to get together and spend some time with our friends and family.

And…as the love, the laughter, and the conversations overflowed with ease
in...

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We stopped to let them walk by us…an old woman leading and old man
She was apologetic.  She said, “Forgive us…we’re moving as fast as we can.”

She said,  “you wouldn’t know to see him...

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The scene from indulgent debt ridden family:
Toad AIG strings notes to unlabeled bonus fields,
Unconcerned a Grand Old Person dances to tune,
Yonder the mirror conceals TG's under the belt shot,
Awakened transparency in desperate steps:

Untouched assets loose...

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Furrows and Lines.

Beneath the furrows and the telling lines
Accumulated through age 
Wear and living
Through the cruel passing of time
Lies beauty hidden from view
And eye
The sallow skin
Is just a mask and an irrespective lie 

Although old...

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Why is it that people think that they are going to live forever? 
When a child is born into this world,
It’s a precious moment,
We are filled with so much happiness and joy,

People say that when...

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Every time I sneeze or cough

Either my radiator leaks or my exhaust backfires!

Shouldn't be a big surprise

It's a definite sign we ain't no young chicken no more

When you grunt just putting on your socks

It's the...

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All Chevy drivers are dangerous; they cannot drive.
I search for a few minutes, finding the Chevy emblem.
Watch stealthily, sure enough he cuts in front of me.
Proving my theory.

Now I change my truth to all Missouri...

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An old women bent over her shopping cart,
         she is a solitary recluse, cut off from the world;
    there is no one at home...

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