Abandoned

People come in and attack...

No warning!

Cut your Baby's head off..

All you were...

(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday...

Quite an undertaking
to break ground
figuratively, and symbolically linkedin
while...

I'm lonely, freedom is not always so wonderful,
did the devil find some work for idle hands to do,...

TIC
A
C
TOE

WE USED TO BE X’s & O’s

TIC
A
C...

Upon the sands,
I summon sleep
As waves crash loudly
Beneath my feet.

Stars...

Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years...

Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated...

some things are just too painful
too hurtful to speak of
the process of forming descriptive...

After extorting pound of flesh
lifetime humiliation drummed into captives
hammering indelible...

to salvage flotsam and jetsam
of human wreckage
amidst a sea where triage
witnessed...

I walked past them again, the family
They didn't look at me
They were busy
Busy with...

The impact, you ask?
Of the lonesome walk?
Of not being able to express yourself?
Of...

motive
unproven
but
guilty
as charged ..
he
shall swing
...

I don’t need
to like
or want you
just because
you think
you love me...

Though descendent of Jews,
I feel boggled at the brutal,
nasty and wanton war between
...

Silence,
Empty rooms and unworn shoes,

A coldness in the air,

Your whispers echo in...