Bill Grace Poems

Mark Lizana shared the professional insight
That the power of a sealed casket is such we turn to soup.
Which is good theology given our proclivity for hubris,
Dust being a far more dignified destiny
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My daughter dressing for school
Struggles to change the color of
The bezel on her fashion watch
Given her by her mother.
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God strikes a match
The airlines of a continent wimper and stall
3,000,000 are touched in the blink of His eye
The inconsequential God who no one knows.
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I do not think greed a natural thing
Though it makes the heart of many sing
And the blood of almost all runs faster
At finding a good deal.
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My most vibrant memory of her
Is with Mr. Evans - a teacher so radical -
He loved his students and took us to see
'Dr. Strangelove' before it became part of the canon.
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As most of the poets basically give for free
She-he's never taken seriously
But let some poet succeed with the buck
You'd think they had acted egregiously.
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Soft as a feather descending
My former advisor's death is learned
I retreating to a hundred versions of 'Stabat Mater'
While against memory of the news
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