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A number of Rod's
friends passed away during 1998, some good friends, so I doubt he'll look back on this
year with any great degree of fondness. Th upside of '98, though, was the opportunity he had of celebrating a
couple of weddings. First off were tara and Bill and this is the Flight Plan from
September 11.
- Ken, Johannesburg, December
20
TARA AND BILL
Be good to one another.. Be honest. Be apologetic when
you're wrong and never reproachful when you are right.. Love is more obligated to
breakfast than bed. As lovers we eat together and cope together and learn to reason with
and respect each other more than we sleep with and make love to one another.
Love is such a gift. No one can write a proper thank you note for receiving it or praise
it enough to say what it really is, the meeting of alike minds and hearts; the willingness
to commit, the ability to leave self to take care of itself while you concentrate on
making it easier for another.
To my friends tara and Bill: A long and happy life together. May you live and love to be a
hundred and may I be the last one to tell you goodnight.
Love and friendship, Rod. 9/11/98 |
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If love were all I had to give
I'd give it and be done.
There are no others anywhere, not one
It is for your own breath I live.
God gives me no alternative.
And I have looked not left nor right
Since sighting you within my sight.
You are for me the only time imperative.
Oh, let me be the one who lies
Against your side for always and
Inside your size, inside your sighs
To do whatever you command,
And see what you would have me see.
I am your bread, partake of me.
- from "Nebraska Sonnets", "Suspension Bridge," 1984. |
