Status Updates From Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems

“You do not know / how desperately I hoped / that you would grow / not so much to love me / as to know / that what you do to me / you do to you.”

This and Mirrors (for David) — a poem about siblings will get me every time

“I know that love is the only answer / and the tight-rope lover / the only dancer. / When the lover comes off the rope / today, / the net which holds him / is how we pray, / and not to God’s unknown, / but to each other—: / the falling mortal is our brother!”

“Time is not money: / time is time. / And a man is a man, my brother, / and a crime remains / a crime.”

“we are liars and cowards all, / or nearly all, or nearly all the time”

I DIGS THIS!