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    POEM:

    I turned fifty this year
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    That at best I have twenty
    Good years left before
    My life is basically over
    As seventy is pushing it
    For a man these days
    This of course assumes
    I don’t get hit by a bus tomorrow
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    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    professor says,
    “picasso had a blue period, which was later followed by a rose period.
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    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    Little girl. You’ve carried
    the burden of my name
    my life, interrupted
    by a car crash at my
    own hands for longer
    then you even knew me
    on earth.

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