Bill Grace Poems

There is a tyranny to pills
That help keep a life intact -
Foremost are the pills to hold stomach acid's back
Then pills that help keep the mind on track,
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It is strange that God should marry paper and ink
The two being so uniquely their own
One should have no use for the other
But combined by force of hand they marry quite nicely,
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The bottled water is no more
Hurricane fears helped lay in a once goodly store
Now we like almost all the town are Aquifer dependent
It's good from foreign water that we are now free
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The man in the locker room told me of their murders
'It is beyond evil.' he said.
Dave Franks a great preacher and good chaplain
at another time of sadness said:
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Eat dessert first
life is indeed
uncertain.
Who ever could guess
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Burton was questing
Liz happy to be
the clash of these currents
produced the marriage casualty.
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At fifty years
His shadow passes
And those who knew his charm
If only through television or alarm
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With deep ripped jeans and guy she came
Wearing an AAMCO transmission t-shirt
She talked dogs, about the breeds we loved
Some stories of their heroism
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I thank them for their gifts
A nation free of monarchy and titles
A nation free of slavery
A nation neither a Kaiser nor a Hitler rule
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Much of the city’s elite turned out
I was an honored peasant guest
From chamber music in the foyer
To flanking giant screens
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