Sunday, January 24, 2010

703. ALECK

ALECK
Here's what I maintain:
'that there are more stars in the
Heavens than yachts on your pier;
that men who come and go with
riches eventually die as naked as
they came; that the false rubble they
leave behind them withers and melts
away as easily as do infractions on the
tongue of a judge; that floral bouquets
do not a woman make; that icing of
such sweetness is not always on a cake.
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That friendship and affection between
two men is not always a bad thing,
even when 3000 miles apart. Why
then do you fight me, like a mule
digesting a lemon? Both,
we shall soon enough,
be dead.

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