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Dark Poetry #4

breakfast of champions

JenniferMaxwell

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since 2006-09-14

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0 posted 2007-09-13 08:05 AM

he loved vonnegut, and john steinbeck
read all the russians in translation
just because now he could
and kept me going when ulysses
became the albatross of my existence
lugged dog-eared along with his
through blinding months of struggle

he never laughed when I asked him for
a small baggie of his dunhill
965 just to sniff on over-nighters
when I missed him most of all

we walked the beach, two survivors
arm in arm against the winter
of our histories bonded by a common need
to see beyond yesterday's horizon

we listened to his favorite, faure’s pavane,
in the car on rainy days,
munched two for one breakfast sandwiches,
sipped hot coffee from his thermos,

watched the sunrise from the cove,
and our season come and go
in the mist beyond the lighthouse
where seabirds soar on thermals

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