bill costley

To & with Patricia

'I've had a wonderful life''
you say 3 times; 'I've had
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half-MOON, Venus, blue night sky

with Patricia Hughes
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IDENTICAL TWINS

Corrine & Bonnie,
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to Patricia

All the love
you filled your life with
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JOY* e-RUPTS!

for Eileen Savel
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On our group walk back from the trio, all talking,

you point out the half-MOON, & I call out
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Millions of parisiens
stand before the Tour Eiffel
shutting down quickly
on a massive film noir,
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@72

I'm finally learning
how essential
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Cast: Narrator, Reggie, Bill.

N: It's daybreak & Reggie awakens,
looks down, & sees Bill's asleep, then
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Physical memory awakens
after taking my pills:

I crave the flaky,
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Baking for 1 hr. in the oven
will become an extravagance
no one can afford in a world
of desperate energy scarcity.
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While you're reading this
Somebody's deciding whether
it's filling empty minds with
stuff of the classifiable category
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the body
burns slowly
for a lifetime,
extinguishing
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Firearms
spew gun-addicts'
ka-powered fears.
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Paid mercenaries play cards.

People risking death play spades.
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Celebrating Easter resolves the conundrum

“Can Life defeat Death? ” with resurrection.
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Remembering baking,
I'm back with my Polish matka
baking goł a, bki
(go-womb-ki = pidgeons)
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SIPPIN'

Sippin' an hibiscus blossom
& rose-hip herbal infusion
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Loving

with Patricia
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with Patricia

"We have come through "
you say, amazing me
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