Bill Grace Poems

Corpus Christi - no switching station - a quiet town
Was an opposite leap from the Berkley years,
And the good doctor known there had a reputation
In the professional association as the only physican
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Tito was an iron man
Sadam was one too.
Given the post partum
Fractures we have seen
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The well, the strong,
Will never understand the sick, the broken,
Till the Great Deomocrat comes.
It is easy to pretend that we do not hear the cold wind
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I can not let you pass without a formal salute
as one who pit carried my fear of that war four years
watched the monster gobble lives known up close.
'The Boat' (Das Boot) a strange film
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I discovered quite painfully
with all good works there is a question:
How do we pay for it?
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All you are is money
take off two dollar signs
it reads the same
all you are is money,
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The most remarkable therapy I have ever heard of was by Doctor Victor Frankl of Vienna. The story was related in class by Robert C. Leslie of Pacific School of Religion - which is the oldest seminary West of the Mississippi. Bob published 'Jesus and Logotherapy' out of his sabatical experience of studying with this survivor of Hitler's Holocaust, Frankl's family did not. Doctor Leslie has published extensively, his 'Sharing Groups in the Church' broke the publishing sound barrier of its day. In poetry the energy this paper celebrates is captured by Sharon Olds's: 'The Space Heater..'
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'Dollar Tree' has died
victim of the Covid virus
that has stalled the land
and been widely avoided
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The Keurig is a model of efficiency
coffee excellent and rich almost instantly
its benefits no poem can ever measure.
Yet the social pixie in me cannot help but ask:
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In the days I gave away pens
the mistake was made of
giving one to an individual distinctly up
the social chain.
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