Bill Grace Poems

America has it all
Including a dependency on the individual's combustion engine
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Jim Dixon concluded after eight years of monastic silence
That he was not so nice
I love this priest who could preach on Betty Boop
And try to help his flock to see his struggle with a darkness
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Of all that I have read and heard of J.F.K. and Father
The most intriguing story for me concerns
A hat the President carried for a week after his inauguration
The owner of the factory that made it being a Kennedy backer
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When this thing we call death claims me
Poor blind creatures that we be
Think of it as liberation to the Main
A life held by subtle passions and yet fearing - released,
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We who are the pastors of our time
Can only hope to heal the smallest fraction
Can not resist the avalanche of smooth talkers and soft thinkers
But must stand aside or be crushed
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From Norman Mailer on 'Charlie Rose'
And from my great professor Bob Kimball
I have absorbed the dicturm
That the task is to sense and write
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Some little thing to say
A piece of the day observed
Or was it perhaps something heard
There's always room to play
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Having gotten not too gloriously squashed on more than one occasion and very nearly so on that which gives the spine to leisurely write
I have learned it is not wise for gophers to argue with tanks
The tanks always being the winner
But better to seek a hole and let them pass over
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With no small benefit
Of time and money behind me
I admire and respect most
Those parents who having neither
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Listening to the Diane Rhem Show on NPR
I was struck by the author's bloody feet by sneaker incident
My seeing the world to a great extent as a mangled place
Where things frequently take on an energy of their own -
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