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the average cost of a funeral is
$8,515

death is unaffordable for me

put me in  big oblong cardboard box

2 feet by 3 feet by 6 feet

packing list enclosed

fragile (not really)
      please handle with care

keep upright

       or

supine

send me to the
grande vide

postage due
She says it's gonna be ok
So I try to listen
Thank you. Thank you, neighbor.
Lamplight lonely glisten

Three little birds
2 wait with wings
1 is not undone
Fruitful sugar sings

It's the way the letters sound
Roll them off my tongue
Exoplanets spin
Young sons sung

                     Water!
10 months still to study
Let me have the concentration I need to read
Talkin' bout the Midnight Gambler
Let it Bleed indeed

Today is Taco Tuesday
Senyoras, Senyoritas take heed
Little cousins, Called back
I plant 3 mustard seeds

                     Please lead.
The burden of knowledge
Violent men
Wish I didn't know now
What I didn't know then

Was fun a mistake?
Serious times
UFOs
China ch chimes

Shiva's 3rd eye
Burns baby burns
Yearbook photos
53 and I yearns

Me on the Mekong
Monks in the rain
Fortress of Solitude
Ms. Lois Lane

Monk with eyes closed
Bangkok at night
Emerald Buddha
Gatsby's green light

           Flight!
Dailiness please
out of my head
    fatherhood
You are the sea.
You are cruel.
You are cold.
And I love you.
the nights grow long
in summer
in sauk rapids
minnesota

an empty pocket book
put on a corner on main street  
she was standing across the street

watching
laughing
smirking

and this is how I met Sarah

a storm of unshed tears
in the stillness of her eyes
but that smile sweet
sweet smile
and you know
you re her only one

and after 4 weeks
in sauk rapids
we knew each others secrets

the midges danced
above the field of wheat
"just say that you love me," she says.
and she began unbuttoning her red flannel shirt
and after
we climbed the town water tower naked
and howled with the wolves

captured in that moment
of sunlight fading
she taught me
all I'd ever need to know...


...I see you sitting beneath the dog wood tree,
whispering leaves
falling all around you
and you are humming softly

the chiming of church bells is calling

we ll meet again at the end of time
my love
and walk across the sun
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