Charles Chaim Wax Poems

Being the union guy at Spinoza HS
created a morsel of interest to the day
like when Darwin Dix showed up
his hair a bunch of purple spikes
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I awoke at 10: 55 Pm
I would have preferred 4 AM
because then I could have stayed
awake
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Tired of typing gibberish
on a rainy Sunday
I journeyed to Brooklyn’s famous
Kings Plaza Mall
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25
just finished
studying Shakespeare
at Wisconsin for my MA
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had a friend
good friend
for more than a decade
we talked of poetry
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Matilda Halbert pushed into Meng’s
at exactly five in the afternoon
with her red shopping cart
empty except for cardboard
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I got a call yesterday
About Gloria,74 years old,
From her sister,69, a smoker all her life
Plus drank a fifth of rum,
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“It’s funny, ” I said
to Henry F and Dilly
in the Teacher’s Center,
“how all our fathers are dead
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Depressed
almost devoured
yet
still the scribbling
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Hubert at 38
and weighing 427 pounds
an only child
father dead long ago
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