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I GUESS THAT IT MAKES SENSE TO NOT WANT TO SEE ALL YOUR YOUTHFUL STRENGTH FADE AWAY WITH THE PASSING YEARS. BUT WITH AN ACTIVE LIFESTYLE, MEDICAL ADVANCEMENTS AND THE GRACE OF GOD, YOU CAN GET OLDER AND NOT GET 'OLD'. AND IN ANY CASE, YOU ONLY REALLY HAVE TWO CHOICES IN THAT AREA
GROW OLD OR DIE YOUNG
Posted on July 3, 2009 at 6:31pm —
The Idiot's Potion
It is simple for the simple to say “I hate,” because hate costs them nothing
No involvement
No effort
No time
To know someone costs bits of yourself
And to love someone may cost everything
I once heard a white man say—I hate all blacks
A black man—I hate all whites
A woman—I hate all men
A man—I hate all women
…idiots
Fools all
Then, the word ‘all’ is beyond a single person
One person can never know all of anything
L… Continue
Posted on June 22, 2009 at 2:30pm —
So Quiet
5 more minutes, let me sit here and look
I remember the coffin’s weight
I almost dropped it
It contained my mother’s body
I’d never drop it
Let me sit here in the still
My mother loved the winter here,
Quiet
4am… 5, 6
3 more minutes
Maybe 2
Maybe less
I love to watch the flurries flutter
Slowly, softly flutter, fall
White silence; Black morning
My mother’s pain; black as ice
She’s gone and all is now so quiet…
As silent as discs of snow falling upon a crypt
--Kevin J Bates J… Continue
Posted on June 19, 2009 at 2:30pm —
Ode to the Light
The recrudescent splendor that makes all the world passable
It is all that glows, all that glistens, all that shines
It is light and isn’t it glorious
Without the light, we could not see to see
Without the light where would we stand in the scape of the earth
Such a marvelous, sparkling, dazzling, miraculous thing
It is light and it is glorious
--Kevin J Bates Jr--
Posted on June 18, 2009 at 2:30pm —
Deliberately Single
Every girl I liked seemed to be taken so I looked down on myself.… Continue
Posted on June 15, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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