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Collected Poems

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the Roman officials before him and after

who else is talked about

every Sunday in the Apostles' Creed?) And

talking of apostles that other fellow

Judas wasn't such a fool

either; though much maligned by

succeeding generations the fact remains

he alone in that motley crowd

had sense enough to tell a doomed

movement when he saw one

and get out quick, a nice little

packet bulging his coat pocket

into the bargain—sensible fellow.

September 1970

Generation Gap

A son's arrival

is the crescent moon

too new too soon to lodge

the man's returning. His

feast of reincarnation

must await the moon's

ripening at the naming

ceremony of his

grandson.

Misunderstanding

My old man had a little saying

he loved and as he neared

his end was prone to relish

more and more. Wherever Something

stands, he'd say there also Something



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