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18
September
2008

Autumn

AUTUMN

Dusk settles heavy on the fall scape;

Maple leaves raining lightly on the summer-stained blades.

There are whispers in the farmland,

Chilled breeze prophecies of mortality’s nearness.

I am listening.

Eleven Canadian geese ‘V’ southward fleeing the inevitable doom

The frost giants will pronounce on my garden.

The allotted days bear no prolonging,

Bear no apology.

I am listening.

Dodging Autumn’s warning, life-in-motion hurls me forward.

Soon those most dear will lie as repast for the earthworms,

With lessons they learned by scars unheeded, interred.

A cold shawl drapes over my shoulders.

Now, I am listening.

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11
September
2008

Cookie Monster Goes to Fat Camp

COOKIE MONSTER GOES TO FAT CAMP

A bit of my inner child died today,

seeing cookie monster,

his crescent grin gracing his face,

sitting behind a table filled with

bananas, grapes, apple slices.

Finally all the years of

television, Hollywood and those magazine ads

have caught up with him.

The network is twisting his arm,

scolding him for being such a bad influence.

So he is watching

his blue furry figure,

the girl on the bowflex video, and trying

to slim down, trying

to count his calories, trying

to watch his carbs.

His plushy face looks a bit gaunt,

his hair unkempt.

Hidden behind that smile and

those wide white eyes,

I see pleading.

“C is for cookie”

that’s good enough for me.

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