Wednesday, November 27, 2024

worms cry

 

unable to keep pace
i cry in chorus 
with the worms 

2 comments:

  1. lines from Roethke s “At Woodlawn”: worm worm glister me forward bird soft sigh me home this is my hard time [df]

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  2. hmm , that's nice. applicable ... my friend come by again. a little better off for some natural medicine that diminished her symptoms, she's
    had such a year. broke her leg last winter at her apt lot, formally owned by this little village's absentee landlord, a real dump taken up by some other get rich quick realtor. ice so thick the paramedics couldn't get to her. she broke her femur ... wtf. lost her job, sued the outfit, the manager is a real lost cause for an llc owned by some money folks.
    as a rule, any help in the state offered by state employees offers about 300 or more venues. i checked 'em all. nobody does that. i did, and realized it was all fluff. she's getting evicted. i talk to some lawyers after getin' a li' feisty. talk to another but nobody will take her case.
    i tell the one something is wrong and i should start turning people in. blackmail if need be, including the inspector.
    'oh, no, don't do that''. so i did. which bought her time and the whole building under inspection.
    'yeah, we'll show you a 'hard time' ihen she gets diagnosed with cancer, sued for back rent on a lie and moves in with her niece. wins the suit on her injury but wrecks her car, no insurance paid by then and ends up with nothin' probably. but, she don't quit.
    before that, she was married to the prez of the mc called the outcasts. lucky she didnt get killed before he went to prison and died there.
    you'd never know though. she always had a job, a sane mother but .... just tough as nails. it's like talking to two different people. so conservative like old school families but she'll punch you out if you hurt a friend. no bullshit.
    eehhh. she came by earlier. mentioned no illness among her numerous siblings, let me hold her lil' doggie, and splits.
    hours later, she returns. her eldest, most affectionate sister died of heart failure. saw her in the hospital but the sister squeezes her hand ... but she's dead.
    i try, i'm left in awe, but ;;; she's the best friend i ever had.

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