Bill Grace Poems

When you meet the President
Say 'hello' and let him talk
This will put him at ease in your presence
Creating the familiar which always helps
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Reading fairy tales to daughter
Has helped remind me in a friendly way
Of the world's complexities and that pride
Of which I am most culpable
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In the delirium of torture
Rommel's name was thrown and
His suicide was forced.
This general who had burned the Fuhrer's order
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When the threads were bronze
That kept me seperate
But before they turned to black
That would divide me even more
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I aimed at A and
Hit W, by God's grace, or is it Z or N?
The cat crunching her meal
As holy a sound
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First there was the Donald Duck
Then the Hopalong Cassidy
Then Grammy gave a Swiss Incablock in 4th grade
A real watch that lasted past
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Three skin strikes upon a red welt -
A little greater than a fish belly white pin head -
An accident in nothing more adventurous than a pristine pool
Tell of this fire ant's excellence
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Free food I know it is a lie.
I can not kill that sign even though I want to.
Those who come for help will not be charged -
this much is true,
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How time does change so many things.
In youth a 'hot spot' was a place to go and drink
and perhaps in a moment of exuberance even dance upon the bar
Or a geography in a sex manual.
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