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I have decided to publish a good many of my poems...It is the heighth of arrogance and self-conceit I know, but you have only yourselves to blame for all the nice comments you have made on them over the years(comments I have saved one and all) ...the book is '70 Feet High and Falling Fast: The Suicide Journals and Other Love Stories'...it is availble at barnesandnoble.com and amazon.com...whether ... more »
Coach Roth Poems
Little Miss Muffet
sat on her muffin...
then she began to pray...
where oh where is my... more »
Prologue
California... more »
Maria worked weekends
in a geriatic ward
of another hospital...
her first long time patient... more »
When I was young..
I loved the trombone...
it's beautifully crafted horn
fed by long elegant tubing...... more »
Our Father who aren't in heaven
where the hell you've been...
Your kingdom came,
and it's still the same...... more »
Eve did not tempt Adam
with the apple from the
tree of life...
she was the forbidden fruit...... more »
Coach worked the counter
at a video store in Hollywood...
musicians, actors, drag queens...
to say the clientele was eclectic... more »
Comments about Coach Roth
***paradise-12-Fat Man Dies
Maria worked weekends
in a geriatic ward
of another hospital...
her first long time patient
was a fat man who
weighed 500 pounds.
The nurses were taxed...
baths, changing sheets.
turning him over...
everything was magnified
by his size...
'My god Coach'
Maria said with that inflection
that indicated sympathy...
'he's humongous...
but such a nice guy,
kind of like Peter Sellers
trapped in a fat suit.'
Over the weeks,
they grew close...
talking at night...
passing the time...
she took him flowers,
he showed ...
Coach Roth is all about Paradise: I still owe him one… I promise it won’t s.u.c.k. when it comes.. aroha PS.. I will probably have to deliver it privately though
Coach Roth has a talent to paint verbal pictures, all of them are well worth reading...