July 2021
Tom Montag
theoldmonk85@gmail.com
Author's Note: You know that friend who talks and keeps talking and won't go away. That's the Old Monk. He's giving me poems faster than I can type them up.I'll remember these days fondly when they finally put him in a nursing home.

from "The Old Monk Poems"

Not all the holy men
are ugly,

but it doesn't hurt,
the old monk says.

from "The Old Monk Poems"

The blemish
is the art,

the old monk
told the artist.

from "The Old Monk Poems"

If you want them
to remember you,

write often or
owe them money,

the old monk said.
©2021 Tom Montag
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