October 2016
I'm almost 70 and still working because I lived a reckless life beginning in the Sixties. I've lived all over the USA and done everything from stand-up and radio to factory work. I have a lovely sixteen year old daughter who I try to help along the way with my second ex who lives close by. My poetry has appeared online and in print.
Friendship
Frank called to say George
was going soon. That he’d
refused more treatments:
they were useless, nothing
would cure him now or even
make him more comfortable.
So he’d taken to bed at home,
seeking dignity and a final
serenity. Visitors streamed
in, small talking it toward
the end. Frank told me this
on the way over to say good-
bye, to take George’s warm
hand in his: skin-to-skin,
blood-to-blood, death-to-death.
©2016 Paul Lojeski
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