April 2018
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.
Brother Machado
I read the thunder and lightening
of Machado, then watched
a commercial for Olive Garden
on TV, happy faces slamming
down steaming piles of pasta,
gorging on greasy mountains
of garlic bread. Were his sacred
bones rattling about their
grave, black crows screeching
in the Spanish countryside?
© 2018 Paul Lojeski
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