Still Swinging
...After chewing shoe leather they called steak,
in the Pencey cafeteria,
Mal, Ackley, and I enjoyed a winter afternoon on campus,
on the bus, and in a restaurant.
We walked across a puffy white ...
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Categories:
pencey, appreciation, brother, cancer, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Cost of Education
...Ossenburger, the business genius,
when he graduated from college,
he started a budget mortuary service.
Five dollars a corpse!
He was the Wal-Mart of death.
Burry ‘em, burn ‘em, float ‘em do...
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Categories:
pencey, business, death, education, funeral,
Form: Free verse
Holden Looks Back
...It happens when you’re debilitated, laid-up, sick;
random images, memories
coalesce within the unoccupied reason of your mind.
Maybe you have a memory, standing on a hill, chilled,
watching ...
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Categories:
pencey, books, character, education, growing
Form: Free verse