stay forever young

for vie redd.

It's because it's Saturday morning and it just rained

and i'm eating cherry tomatoes right off the vine without washing them:

Faith dulls our resolve to the point that contamination can equal calm,

brakish taste can so closely resemble lust that you just cant stand being alone. 

So follow me here. I'm watching a Three Stooges movie, the one where the boys are running

scared from the desperado's in a covered wagon

but the carriage breaks loose from the horses now ridden wildly

by Larry and Mo, but Curly remains adrift, overwrought and scorching hot

without windows. Frightened, he throws some

pots and pans out the back of the runaway carriage and the bad men's horses

hooves get caught and they seem to dance that tuwhittuwhoo like hurt owls

or those in love  make (who can tell the difference?)  That metal -to -soul

sound with pans that mother made when she was furious with my father. You don't

get younger just by wanting to. The woman on the morning news says you

have to change your wardrobe to fix the meaning of your life. You can't just

want a baby without being in love or want to  flee from being captured without

first being on the run. We, Jesus, Allah, Moondoggie are not larger in those seconds

before we die. Yesterday, while we sat on our porches

eating the last of the sunrippened, unsplit ones

Ms Walker, 87, drove herself to church, then returned home, lifted the door of the

garage and entered the darkened house.

Reviews

[Ken Simm.]

Someone who can take the commonplace and produce wisdom. Oh, how I wish for that skill. And....and he says being rather surly at this juncture. Anyone who can do it with such aplomb and dare I say it beauty. much as it galls me to agree with out friend below. Three stooges and beauty? Who'd a thunk it.

[h d e rushin]

thanks Ken.....You are one my poetry hero's .........

[cs richardson]

all of life coalesced into one poem.

[h d e rushin]

thank you and happy holidays to you my friend....dana

[D Connolly]

Your poetry is so interesting! It's blowing my mind right now! I'm almost left speechless

[h d e rushin]

thank you D......don't you dare be left speechless by my craziness.......

[emmajoy]

' i'm eating cherry tomatoes right off the vine without washing them: ~~ Faith dulls our resolve to the point that contamination can equal calm, ' What an incredible (almost) opening!

There's something magically surreal or surreal magical.. there is a difference, in this here writing.

Guilt here, rarely seen the Three Stooges and pretty sure they're not akin to the Magi.. but somehow they appear in a memorable, noisy way and stay faithfuil to folk as they creep along the age path. Guess i've something really malleable to look forward to as i get older, both a 'wonde why' and a 'wonder if'. Times alterr, rules flouted or debunked by the adherents, love and lust ripples into fire... you write as if story telling is real.. at core.

[1VJ]

This one percolated my mind, you've got cherry tomatoes, three stooges, some kind of weird noise that resembles humping, owls or heavy metal. As if I that wasn't enough to wrap my brain around , then came Jesus, Allah and Moondoggie, babies and an old lady. Who knew it would jive. Woo, I'd love to be in your head for just one day. Madness in a typical day in the life of...that is nothing short of brilliance!

[h d e rushin]

thank you so much Paloma......dana

[Lydia Shutter]

Dana, I don't think I have ever read anyone else use a three stooges movie as a spiritual life lesson. You are amazing! Religiousity does not change lives....at least it does not seem so to me. Perhaps Ms. Walker was okay going into that darkened house because she believes....who are we to say? As always, powerful message in your words. Lydi**

[h d e rushin]

thank you so much Lydia........funny how old becomes new in poetry.....dana

[W.k.kortas]

Anyone else tries to use the Stooges as parable, I'd hunt them down and shoot their a*s. You, on the other hand, make it look like the most natural damn thing in the world.

[h d e rushin]

that's funny wk..................i love you...dana

[Ed Hart]

i'll bet you're a good hugger, too

[h d e rushin]

i am Ed. And when i meet you in that other life, we will hug......dana