Age 48

Hemorrhoid operation

“No piece of cake”

Stayed away from doctors

Until

98

Routine physical

Sent on her way

Basket full of pills

Health

Rapidly

Downhill

Died

99

She always said:

“Strong Mind

Live Long Time”

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walking

tossing

torn

photos

pulled from dirty bag

looking as if……..

relinquishing

past

the

Man

frantically

shouting

to rush hour traffic

“please be my friend”

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Men work the mines

Receive little for their labor

Hidden misery

Advertising

Sells the dream

Exploitation marches on

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Always keeps everything moving

&

In line

She

Grew up

South of Equator

Samba

Bossa Nova

Colorful

Land

Weekends

Chased boys

Bob’s hamburgers

Dark beach tan

Played

Frescobol

Attended all girl military school

Early to rise

Early to bed

Organization only tool

Procrastination not in arsenal of cards

Smiles easily

Has gigantic heart

Total focus on items in her hands

Never distracted with noise

From distant lands

Will get any job done

Always has intelligence button on

No squawking

Just takes care of situation

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Mexico

Ruins and beaches

Beautiful senhoritas

Colors everywhere

Scorching hot food and cold beer

Narco–traffickers to fear

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Never melt from heat

Always won

Never retreat

Reinforced concrete

Completely invincible

On his deathbed so fearful

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She is different

Nonconforming

Underdog

Only a backpack

Roaming the world

No one will ever tame her

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Sharm-el Sheikh

Egypt

Smoking shisha pipes

Bedouin tribes now lead dives

Pour her some more rum

She

Cannot

Keep

Eyes

Off

Tan

Italian

Beach Bum

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Kyoto

Japan

Dimly lit hanging lanterns

Elegantly dressed

Determined

Geisha

Glide

Along

Narrow

Cobbled

Walkways

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Sometimes

I

Remember

The

Hunt

For

Knowledge

All night

University

Study Room

Mixing

Drinking

Coffee & Mountain Dew

Taking

Breaks

Playing

Go

With

Korean

Ocean Engineering major

Friend

We

Both

Acquiring

The

Discipline

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The old lady

Always fed husband cabbage soup

He died in sixties

She lived well into nineties

Investing savings wisely

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Surrounded

By

Flustered

Tourists

Taking

Selfies

The old man

Took

Leisurely

Snaps

With

Polaroid camera

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Watch body language

Reveals true message

Listen carefully

Loose lips speak reality

Intuition provides safety

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Always at the track

The Gambler puffs his cigar

Sitting at the bar

Reading the racing sheets like

it was his sacred bible

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My bicycle is chained to undernourished palm tree

I’m sitting at a hot dog stand

Next to a middle-age man

He is trying to act smooth

Wearing

Polyester suit

Gold pinky ring

Fake Rolex watch

Cheap shoes

Talking with his mouth full

Pitching

Over & over

Great deal

He can give me

On used “set of wheels”

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holding beer can in paper sack

he sat on the dirty sidewalk

enshrined

by the shadow

against the building

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alone with sand and stones

face and sunglasses covered with dust

mind in no rush

body temperature warns time to go

walk back to motorcycle

continue on empty road

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Heavy Rain commences

Another wet season

Termites on the attack

More wood consumed

Me and the missus

Ponder

Will we pass away before shack collapses from decay?

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Few months away

20 years no cell phone

Wife

Capitulated

Purchased her own $39.99 smartphone

I knew something was up

After two days

She finally fessed-up

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long drawn-out rain drips

peeling wallpaper

newspapers

books

scattered on the floor

his mind constantly craves more

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No expensive toys
Laughing
Smiling
Riding water buffalo
Free entertainment for children

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Roofing

Eight stories tall

Do not fall

Shirt off

Sun cooking my skin

Long day

Muscles hurt

Tomorrow

Do it again

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prey on those living in misery

crush disadvantaged

use legal system for advantage

accumulate luxury frivolous things

ego sings

fool peasants with razzle-dazzle

free pass for the jackals

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sidewalk

busy intersection

pacing

around and around and around

hysterically

scratching

lottery card

the lady stopped

raised her arms

called out

over and over and over

“I won 5 bucks”

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give just a little

take a lot

you always ask for a doggy bag

extra packets of sugar in the pocket

scrapping leftover bits from your dinner plate

small takes

subsisting as a cheapskate

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followed by ducks

the fisherman walks

chewing betel nut

content

spending most days

sitting on the bank

casting his line into the river

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her soul

desires more

masquerading as a whore

grinding

on selective flesh

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No tan lines

Shell necklace

Bazaar purchased dresses

Collects feathers

Wanders

No commitments

Only

Men and Women

With

Savoir-faire

Are

Her

Conquests

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Woman

Hauling

Water

Uphill

Smiling

Gestures

If I would like a drink

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Leaving

No farewell

Wear the mask

Seamless

Transition

From

Slum

To

Corporate world

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Looking

At her art

In the gallery

She

Remembered

The young girl

On the way to school

Learning from street graffiti

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The

Mannequin

Always

Sits

Back of the room

Hair is shoe polish black

Facial skin pulled back

2^nd hand threads

Pressed

Dated

From way back

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