November 2021
Tom Montag
theoldmonk85@gmail.com
Author's Note: The old monk has not finished speaking.

from
The Old Monk Poems

	for Mike Stinson
"In other words"
is when he's just
catching his breath,
the old monk said.

~

You don't have to
leave Nebraska
to find the answer,

the old monk
told his friend.

~

Sometimes I want to
get so far from where
I started that even

I don't know
how I got there,
the old monk said.

~
©2021 Tom Montag
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