Monday, April 9, 2012

The Good Life

When Judge Manning sat
at the bench during a motion-
hearing recess at the Superior
Court and warned
the law students to not
drink booze after taking cold
medicine, because after passing
out in your wife's lap
you'll spill your whiskey all over
the neighbor's carpet; it said something
about my American Dream,
anyway:

Get born and keep warm,
taste the good things, corn
whiskey and chicken wings, see
the pretty things, like orange blossoms
and women wearing blue polkadot
blouses in early April, and
find God in the living, marry
a pretty woman who will give birth
to two beautiful daughters and die
testate, but still leave
something -- art and love --
to the imagination.

Raleigh, NC,
4-9-2012

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