r james sterzinger Poems

... my day continues

after stopping for a burger,
fries and a coke
...

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis'

Baptismal Record:
that's not my signature.
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I.
the theory is
if you move away
they won't die
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she set the terms
of negotiations

so I left her
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Behold the Handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to Thy word.'
The Angelus

The bells from St. Mary's still rings in the twilight
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Ecce Ancilla Domini.
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no ends no means no justification
life had become a spider's web
folding and winding around itself
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Nitrous Oxide
Novocain
or the meditation techniques
you learned from the
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shorter days
wet damp indifferent days
to us fools who
believe in the permanence of
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Leghorns.....For Mary Oliver

a bouquet of red roses
for my lady friend
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