Bill Grace Poems

Daughter requests chauffering to school
After the school run the donut boy is fun
Understands “the big decision” of a chocolate donut
The little girl next to me spills her milk
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If the Pharisees and Saducees were the elites of their day
Jesus did not come to save them
Though in history they would turn his cross to sword
And mangle many others as surely in his name
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The waitress quotes a beer at $3.50
The register corrects at $4.00
She gets her $1.00 tip
I smile and sweetly state Sam’s sells
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In the corner of the donut shop I remember him
Philadelphia’s gem merchant extraordinaire
Whose advertising visage haunted national magazines
Scion of separate fortune
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'Remember man that thou art dust
and to dust thou shalt return, ” intoned
my childhood’s priest. With age has come
the simple realization that the ashes of the church
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You were flint I was steel
Perhaps it was the other way around
Or did I just play the clown?
At distance it is hard to say.
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When age eight or so
If memory still serves at sunset
The World War II movie was called: “Away All Ships”
The captain at his post was killed
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