Monthly Archives: May 2014

Our story is too small

Our story is too small. :- Doug.

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family renews

As the story renews the family renews :- Doug.

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Our family holds a story:

Our family holds a story: a stroke, trach tube, speech gone, crisis, must pull together, but years ago harsh words, hard to stitch this rent fabric Holding our breath we consult a lawyer the lawyer has no silver needle only … Continue reading

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Fix her hair

My wife needs to fix her hair I didn’t notice It was broken :- Doug.

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Like Scott toilet paper

Like Scott toilet paper Is the kind of lawyer I am— Soft, strong, lasts long :- Doug.

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I make poetry because

I make poetry because— life loves me and I love life something alive needs to be shared the all there is matters deeply to me —My feet and hands jangle :- Doug.

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If Mama ain’t happy

If Mama ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy If Daddy’s in the nursing facility ain’t nobody not in the nursing facility :- Doug.

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Don’t look at how much money this long-term care strategy will save you

Don’t look at how much money this long-term care strategy will save you; rather how much life is engendered: life in food and shelter for Mom, life in providing for her husband and children, life in the lessons she can … Continue reading

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Keep grinding away at your nose

You can keep grinding away at your nose till finally your brain is worn away. :- Doug.

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Get wiser together

Come, let us sit and get wiser together. :- Doug.

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For you, time

For you, time. :- Doug.

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serious attention to our ripening

It is absolutely necessary —our society needs us to work on what only we only now can find and create— to devote serious attention to our ripening in aging —and in dying :- Doug.

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Why do you want to live?

Why do you want to live? That’s not as callous as it seems. What would you do in the extra hour you have not done in the last one? :- Doug.

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to age until we are almost invisible

As we age we might just become subtle ever more subtle until we are almost invisible about 3 years later we die but subtlety is fun so we should still seek it :- Doug.

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Life is large enough to hold death

Life is large enough to hold death Conversation is large enough to hold polarity Maybe they are mutually embracing :- Doug.

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Choosing a lawyer

Choose a lawyer based not on how much he or she knows, but how much he or she cares. There is only a slight variation in the amount lawyers know, but a vast variation in how much they care. :- … Continue reading

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let’s try this on again

A heart available vulnerable lost let’s try this on again :- Doug.

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