Thursday, May 31, 2012

THESE DYING DECADES


THESE DYING DECADES

What are you dying of?
is the unspoken thought

during these dying decades; many think
of breast cancer, AIDS, Alzheimers,
incurable (yet uncured) pandemics, all

unspeakable thoughts, read in the a.m. paper
by lunch become 'the known cause of death.’

At lunch I was told: "as a 70yr old man, you
already have testicular cancer"; already well
aware of it, I try not to think about it often,

but it seems you can't escape dying
as subject anymore; instead, try

thinking yourself out of suffering. 

(31 MAY 12, Santa Clara CA)v9, appeared on
Sunday, 10 JUN 12,  in the New Verse News:
www.newversenews.blogspot.com 

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