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o / friend
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An original poem.

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o

friend
nonstill
ness

is
the dying
of us

we
cannot think
time

in
rushingly
hurry

ing
death bills
taxes

and
my bus is
late

too




An excerpt from A Chorus of Voices
by Kurt Messick
Dry Bones Press, February 2003

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 Reviews of "o / friend"
Reviewed by Vesna Perkovic (Reader)
Reviewed on October 24, 2003
..Well..LOL...indeed...
Uncommomnly write!...LOL...

Vesna :)

Reviewed by Paul Berube
Reviewed on May 27, 2003
Unfortunately, everything is of which one must do except take the bus.

Reviewed by Nicole Davis Vergara (Reader)
Reviewed on May 27, 2003
What a sweet whimsical piece that does speak of what some of us care not to! ;O)

Reviewed by Lady Peg (Reader)
Reviewed on May 26, 2003
I love it I always feel rushed as the world rapidly spins by
Peggy

Reviewed by Zenith Elliott
Reviewed on May 26, 2003
Well done.

Reviewed by Candida Eittreim
Reviewed on May 26, 2003
I like this! Succinct spare and elegant!

Candida

Reviewed by Gwen Dickerson
Reviewed on May 26, 2003
Death, bills, taxes! Things I don't want to hurry. Hope they arrive late, just like the bus! Nice poem.

Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on May 26, 2003
i like this

Reviewed by Nancy D.
Reviewed on May 26, 2003
Short and to the point, like this.

Nancy

Reviewed by Jan Peregrine (Reader)
Reviewed on May 26, 2003
Short and sweet!

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on May 26, 2003
Sorry about the bus. Was it a double decker ?
[smiles] Cute little work. Bravo.


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