After his mother died, his father stopped shaving.
“Let’s bury her out on the lawn,” his father said On the fairway, “Or out by the Fifth Tee If I ever make it there,” and he saluted, Shading his eyes with his right hand.
A burly thicket of hair grew into a beard.
Then after his father died, they cut off the beard And buried it outside his picture-window. Although each bristle was tested for drugs, The beard continued to grow.
I grew up in Christian fundamentalism, went to hell, came back, became a Presbyterian then a Buddhist Presbyterian, and now I'm a profane Presbyterian Zen Taoist -- not that I'm into labels or anything. Here's what I've learned so far: The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
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Familicide
After his mother died, his father stopped shaving.
“Let’s bury her out on the lawn,” his father said
On the fairway, “Or out by the Fifth Tee
If I ever make it there,” and he saluted,
Shading his eyes with his right hand.
A burly thicket of hair grew into a beard.
Then after his father died, they cut off the beard
And buried it outside his picture-window.
Although each bristle was tested for drugs,
The beard continued to grow.
No accounting for spontaneous combustion.
[Disposable Poem July 6, 2013]
Dr. Mike
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