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 

NO DRAFT, NO WAR, Just Peace

NO DRAFT, NO WAR, Just Peace

One of my uncles, a submariner,

another, a bomber waist-gunner,

another, an OSS assassin in Poland,

another, a mountain ski-trooper

killed in the Italian alps; his widow,

a WAVE, married to an Army cook,

none of them ever marked me for war

except my father, rejected by the army:
for wearing glasses, for being married,
for having a child (me), incredulous that
I wouldn’t accept the Vietnam War draft:

“You’re a citizen! You have to!” He'd never
learn I beat the army draft by checking-off
“covert homosexual" (hidden in its long list of
debilities) during my pre-induction physical. 

How can we deflate war's delusions?

No draft. No war. Just Peace.

(USA Memorial Day 2012, Santa Clara CA)v9
appeared on The New Verse News http://www.newversenews.blogspot.com
for Wed. 30 MAY 12

British WW1 soldier-poets saw war was horrific for the troops & delusional for the homefront. It is again. It always was.

TINNITIS

TINNITIS @ 70

I hear high whistling in my ears as

I turn 70. My HMO audiologist says
not to obsess about it, so I'm trying

not to, but it's steadily buzzing, : 

there, whereever there is, buzzing

like a fluorescent-fixture ballast. Will 
it buzz temporarily, or indefinitely.?

(26 MAY 12, Santa Clara CA)v6

M@ttered

As our World ended, I wound an old watch
or thought I did, unsure what time it was,
or what time-zone I was in, as if
.
Time & Matter didn't matter; anybody 
blame Higgs' Boson, or Harold Camping
for our no longer winding watches?

(23 MAY 12, Santa Clara CA)v15
(1 day after my 70th birthday)

Obliter@ted

On my 70^th birthday,

I suppress my tears

@ our Sun's implosion 

in only 5 billion years,
@ all I see & know

o  b  l    i    t   e    r   a      t        e          d

(21 MAY 12, Santa Clara CA)v9

the JESUS-app.

THE JESUS-app.

How deeply is the Jesus-app.

embedded if, when, & once 

you’ve been raised a Christian?

The Roman Catholic church

has always held that baptism

leaves an indelible mark.

Is long/wet exposure as deep

as earnest conversion? 

(16 MAY 12, Santa Clara CA)v7

AMISH COOKIN'

PL@INLY AMISH

You work thru the 1987 AMISH COOKIN’

cookbook of Clark-Madison MO.

(compiled by Mrs.Henry L. Yoder)

w/ a yellow highlighter

highlighting recipes

you can reduce for 2

by dividing them as written,

sometimes by 4, 8, 12, 16, 20.

Contributors to every section include

women of the Gingerich family:

Mrs. Chrissie J. Sr., Mrs. Jacob N.

Mrs. Jonas C., Mrs. Joni D.
Mrs. Mose C.,  Mrs. Noah J.,
Mrs. Paul D., Mrs. Sammie E., etc.

.

(10 MAY 12, Santa Clara CA)v5