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Surviving

Sunrise glances From the arches of The fast food restaurant A breeze Stirs the debris Of paper and Half eaten

Tomorrow was yesterday – the day imagination took flight; the day my sneakers touched the dust of that distant

It started as the kind of night I always feel with you: Love and joy and tenderness – An intoxicating

(The days of the nickel dates are long gone but the memories do endure for a pretty young girl of

I can almost hear her voice beckoning to, “Come up and see me sometime” Sequins shine, hugging curves which went

Strange. It seems the rims don’t seal quite as well as she remembers. And the colors; the greens and yellows

I first met Laurie Bembenek in the late 1980s while she was serving a life sentence for killing her husbands’

The ground was warm You pressed your palms upon the earth hands retracted and with them dirt Touching your face,

Old people Staring into space Like visitors Staring wistfully From the pier As ships depart Traveling ever further away Some,

Nature abhors a vacuum We fill it with sales But more isn’t enough Though this offer Is only for a