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Rod in “The Best is Yet to Come” 11/6/04
Photo by Shira Greenburg ©2004 by Broadway.com. Used by Permission
A Thought for Today
Youth has courage and age experience. I
continue to learn from both.
FROM the¨BOOKS
TWO POEMS from Suspension Bridge
Options
There are other paradises
than those we’re always promised,
some easier to reach.
A plan thought out,
a well-laid table,
a borderline that’s blurred
and needs no sentries.
A well-made coat against the cold
is paradise enough for me this year.
I know that I’ll want more
within the new days coming.
Each man’s needs should far exceed
his grasp
or what are needs for?
I think that heaven now
would be some woman’s arms.
Some woman I have yet to meet
and be tripped up by.
Tomorrow I might think the road’s end
heavenly.
One ought to have an option
and yet be covered in the final hour.
Back then to scriptures
and the studying of same.
The one insurance policy
those of us who fear and love
our God in equal measures
dare not be found out without.
-from Suspension Bridge, 1984
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One Does it for Me. I’ll see you on Thursday.
RM 2/7/2005 2:09AM
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