Quotes and Poetry

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
- Edmund Wilson


This one I wrote a few weeks ago after watching an episode of House. A TV show I am as addicted to as the main character is to Vicodin.

after the moment

when machines
are turned off
family in a daze
makes their way
past the nurses’ station
an orderly
gently pulls IVs
from sluggish veins
then squeezes a soapy
sponge one last time
before caressing
each part of the body

ltv


I wrote this one during my FloPoSo meeting last Thursday.

Non-Conformist

white plastic picket
lines the myriad
flags and gnomes
the growing collection
of garden paraphernalia
a glaring contrast
to the neatly
kept bushes and annuals
sanctioned by the
condo association

ltv