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dingusjr
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since 2003-09-24
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0 posted 2007-05-31 06:07 AM


Old Albert sat like stone
near the corner windows.
Imprisoned not by iron bars
but by age and disability.

His wife fluttered around him
cawing harshly
as Albert sat in silence
staring out the window.

When I was eight
I would visit Albert.
We would sit and talk
with those long silences
that men have when they sit together.

One day Albert asked
if the neighbor had a new dog.
It was huge, Albert said.
Only with the head of a dog
but the body of a man.

It would pace like a sentinel outside,
back and forth,
periodically glowering toward the house
through yellow eyes.

Of course the neighbor had no dog,
and Albert soon died.

It was years later I learned
about Anubis,
the Egyptian God..
with the head of a jackal
and the body of a man,
who escorted the newly dead
to the afterlife.



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Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688
Waukegan
1 posted 2007-05-31 09:12 AM




Very good

John

Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354
Listening to every heart
2 posted 2007-05-31 11:20 AM


Larry,

it always amazes me
what people envision
before passing on.

Fortunate are those
who listen.


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