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Compassion Redux
by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin → (All Poetry by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin)
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For a dear lady-friend's (adjective uninserted) husband, who also is a friend, except when not.

 

       Compassion Redux

               for Mark S.

 

You tease me for a broken wrist

a sprain, a crutch, a cane.

Faker!   you hurl.

Hypochondriac!

 

Once you're my age

I'll not do the same,

won't be like you --

will evince empathy,

compassion,

gift you with trust,

 

run for my gun,

and shoot you.

 

Copyright Julianza Shavin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "Compassion Redux"
Reviewed by Gene Williamson
Reviewed on September 3, 2009
Ah, this is pure delightful Shavin. Keep your powder dry. -gene.

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on August 31, 2009
Some people are often so afraid of their own loss of invincibility that they mock other's pains as trivial and hide behind a false bravado. I am aging and I feel the heart pain, I feel the tireness that my diabetes supplies, I gringe with pain of neuropathy of the feet where every step is like walking on burning coals and yes I feel like shit somedays and don't need or want someone telling me that I am making it up so usually I have three litte words for them..."Go F___k yourself!" cheaper than a bullet. lol
hugs
Fee

Reviewed by Lori Moore
Reviewed on August 30, 2009
Lovely poetry... with a touch of vengeance just around the corner.

Reviewed by Peter Schlosser (Reader)
Reviewed on August 30, 2009
Prolific we are today! Love to see it. When you gotta' go, you gotta' go. That's just how nature works sometimes. Love the 180 at the end. Frightening and hauntingly beautiful. But a word to the wise, revenge is indeed a dish best served cold!!

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on August 30, 2009
if you can shoot straight, he's in trouble ...

conceptually explosive ...


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