ran flashed and fightingly

but flash flood by an old man

and i'm lisstening cause he's my great uncle

and half-formed = by stray hairs

is half-finished

it's well begun and half done

the maxim is sung

they say we come from the water

but i find it so hard to stay on top.

and you don't know how

damned tired your legs are

till you try to pull yourself

out.

only o the saying

goes

the only animals who can't support

their own body weight is me

what's the correct spelling of we?

i've a double-you but no E.

he forgot to take his pills

but he won't forget his dear  brother

-in law's pace maker

making rhythm in his chest

but for Taiwans or Thailands or timezones

\he's requiring an adjustment

          (an annulment?)

aan end to his belove'd wife.

She's got the whole world behind

her but she's boxed up in this

cabin staring at the wall

and smoking 120s

they're named for pants

she forgot her smoking jacket.

with

          such cancellation of one vice (the

wrong one)

          AND THE PROMISE TO LAY DOWN

Raleigh's rolled when death is at the

door.

a permissable time a tyme a thyme

though that time is now

and she's smoking a pack a day

and filling her veins with the eternal

they've learned to depend on.

tightly wound like a Victrola

drinking Bolla -- Prinzen Rolle

making love to the stars that

would call her name if she;d only

turn around.

i'm sleeping on the couch

for all the pain

why the hell can't she remember

my name

sometimes and though she read

love outloud to those twice

her age she walks with a cane

now she's got a walker

next itt'll be a stretcher

i can't even look at her

the same

but at least i have sore muscles

to prove i tried

i stood up three times

but failed to impress the

adopted cousin from Tennesee

(but it was the sushi-eating one

from California who mattered)