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  April 2022     1 year ago

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Beneath The Daisies

Beneath The Daisies

No one knows just why it happen on that lovely day in June.
The pain was just subsiding as she lay there on the bed.
And the life that passed beside her that had entered all too soon,
She lay down in a towel -- pillowed...

by Frank Kortuem

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Menopause

Menopause

My husband doesn't love me.
My youngest one’s a brat.
No matter how I exercise,
my once thin thighs stay fat.

My job is wearing on me
My boss, -- he is a creep.
But mostly I’m just sick and tired
Of sweatin’ in my sleep.

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by Frank Kortuem

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The Hairy Beast

The Hairy Beast.

Afloat upon this inland sea.
A book of verse is in my hand.
The sun, the sky, the raft, and me.
No ripple stirs the shoreline sand.

When out the corner of my eye--
A zigging zagging hairy beast.
It is the dreaded black...

by Frank Kortuem

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At seventy-four years old, with me, it hit the nail on the head.

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