The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
...It was brief and short sad moment of time
That still flashes and rings in the painful memory of the country
Enjoying and his wife Mary Todd the play 'Our American Cousin'
In the midst of the laugh...
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Categories:
short sad, america, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Edna Purcell 1912-1930
...Edna Purcell
1912-1930
Dying a virgin was the least of my regrets.
Dying a chaste woman at 18 seemed a moot point.
I remember watching my momma die.
It was in summer, and I was 16.
Hopelessly...
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Categories:
short sad, death,
Form: Epitaph