back once more,but not so fast...

a wild, tough few months.my beloved brides brother went to the other side in December,and I don't mean Republicans. I pray that the peace which was absent from his life is now found, and that he is dancing somewhere among the cosmos..My dear friend Bob passes in January,after battling cancer to a standstill. His courage and grace was of a Hemingway character, and he was,insistently, the least sentimental person I have ever known. Brave,kind,balls out hilarious, avuncular with my kids,a good great friend whom I miss each and every day...I see the mean spirited flatulent party has , after wrecking the economy and perhaps permanently destroying this countries credibility, after fleecing everyone for 28 years and calling it "patriotic',somehow, these cretins have not woken up to the simple fact that they have been exposed. The President is doing an extraordinary job, especially in light of inheriting the worst financial and diplomatic crisis since 1932...sigh...

100 years more
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The sky was green

Neon

Flashes illuminating

Smoke

Fog

Gas dust

As he fell

He turned his head

Slightly

To the left

Thought

How

The fog looked

Bathed in green

like the lights

of the high school

football field

He didn’t feel the ha rd

Cold ground

Didn’t feel the

Hole

The viscous

liquid

Oozing out

Mixing with sand

Dirt

Dew

He smelled

Something

Familiar

And thought

Is this what I smelled

When I was born

The blood

Earth

Sweat

Fear

Shit

and longed

For his mother

Her smell

Her warmth

any warmth

He was cold

the desert night

seemed eternal

It was borne

Within

A cold that was a vast

without darkness
light

or end

He saw faces

Lips moving

He couldn’t hear them

They became

Enshrouded

In the gauze of fog

As he sighed
one final time