Next?
Posted on | February 2, 2012 | 2 Comments
Upon returning from that haven of the wintered elderly, I had running through my brain an exchange that might amuse those of us in the Medicare crowd. And for those who have yet to bite into that apple of wisdom in the sunset years, this might provoke a chuckle as you anticipate being Next. For the guarantee within the poemI have to thank my father, who could rattle it off at least as fast as I have here.
PS. Now that we’re home, I’ve added recordings for my earlier poems, “Dust” and “Live Oak.” I’m sure you’d like to know how I pronounce bromeliad.
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He was polite, yes, deferential. A little Southern. And, I must be looking old.
But sir, they haven’t made that thing for years….
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William J. Everett
In my teaching career I authored eight books and numerous articles in social ethics and religion. After over thirty years of academic work — in Germany, India, and South Africa as well as in the United States — I wanted to turn my hand to a poetically written novel to probe the issues of ecological and human reconciliation.
When I am not writing, I create furniture for worship settings. For more about my work, go to www.WisdomsTable.net, where you will also find galleries of artwork by my wife Sylvia, whose ancestors were the original inspiration for Red Clay, Blood River. READ MORE...
Red Clay Blood River
Red Clay, Blood River is a story told by Earth about two brothers from Germany and an enslaved South African woman whose lives bind together America’s “Trail of Tears” and South Africa’s simultaneous “Great Trek” of 1838.
February 2nd, 2012 @ 1:11 pm
Good One – I refuse to answer anyone in a place of business that addresses me as (Honey, darlin, or the waitress at a Chinese restaurant we go to occasionally who addresses,Stan and me as “Well, hello cute ones”)Stan says I can’t kick her in the Shins. Trying to buy obsolete products, I can deal with. I probably can do without it anyway.Well, that’s my senior citizen gripe for the day,
Thanks
Lavilla B.
February 2nd, 2012 @ 5:32 pm
I asked this young guy how I could get in touch with him. He said I could try his Facebook page, follow him on Twitter, or try the old-fashioned way—e-mail.