Friends For The Departed
(A requiem for Rector)
For the most part you seem to be in your place, although I could not define you or place but every again & now here you are. A dream dreamt. A bear dressed in purple velour
drinking beer on 6th Avenue & even despite the bear being beardless, the immediacy of knowing the bear is no normal bear but a buried man come back with hair turned to fur,
You were not petted or chatted to. You drank alone.
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B®AND LOYALTY
I was like so . . . Geico
And you were like so . . . Activia
And together we were like so . . . GlaxoSmithKline
In an effort to be so . . . Ann Taylor Loft
We end up so . . . Crocs
And sometimes we’re all like so . . . Ambien
When we mean to be so . . . Lemon Pledge Aerosol Spray
Although we’re perfectly fine being Pilot G2 Retractable
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Protagoras
An ancient story admired his poise
and decided to instruct him.
The story’s system of grammar
is said to have drowned at sea.
Volume, not humanity,
was the first traveling teacher of philosophy.
Metaphysical theories
consider good manners for a fee.
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Cento: For Our Mother
come live with me and be my love
come live with me and be my love
come live with me and be my love
had we but world enough and time
come live with me and be my love
stone walls stone walls stone walls you know
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My Lady of Modernity
hen you see the torch, they will dry fire a cannon into your milieu. In art, one
must kill one’s father. Too risqué? Don’t stand there, hat in hand, wont to a
suppressor, wet with an overpressure wave (to trade in modern coin), but I
drink your tea. A glove is a glove is a glove is an invitation, and while you may sail by
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thirsty rain
the rivers have grown dry without you!
the summer has passed by without you!
the parched ground has grown accustomed
to making do without you!
so when you came greedily pouring yourself
all over
we were ashamed that you had your way with us
that we had gone this long
and still wanted you back