"Origins: the Birthplace of a Tumbleweed"
poems about my home town
by Max Reif
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Yes, Death Is a Fact of Life
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Yes, death is a fact of life,
but as I put up the memorial
web page for departed
high school classmates
prior to our 40th reunion,
it's a mystery where
they can have gone.
I just learned
about the demise
of half of them,
they seemed fine until then.
Didn't see any of them expire.
Only visited one in the hospital,
and that was way back
in our junior year.
As I look at their yearbook pictures,
something about them still jangles
like money in their pockets.
Laughter still sings
from the faces
of a few who were jokers.
One girl's still being dramatic.
There's a place where
my high school lives
as it was forty years ago,
these people
still walking its halls.
copyright 2006 by Max Reif |
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