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I obey traffic signals. I am cordial to strangers, I answer my mail promptly. I keep a balanced checking account. Why can't I live forever? Blessing Woman, that you know of death is ablessing; that you love me for what I am, of this world, and will lay a hand upon my beating heart. Longing This longing to be healed in you each night in bed without you is a struggle to breathe. Forever At the water's edge of a deserted beach, standing between the two choices, I contemplate my position with an objectivity as though the mind lives on forever. That's the Sum of It I don't know which to mourn. Both have died on me, my wife and my car. I feel strongly about my car, but I am also affected by my wife. Without my car, I can't leave the house to keep myself from being alone. My wife gave me two children, both of whom, of course, no longer live with us, as was to be expected, as we in our youth left our 163 ...

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