By Gene Novogrodsky
Cardiologist, listens, feels: ears, fingers.
Pharmacist, shoots pills into plastic.
Walkers and canes drag, are pushed.
Adult care, day and overnight.
Appointments, one helped in-out: respite.
Obituaries, life in black and white on a quarter page.
Elections, 2012, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, projected, demographics.
World Cups, 2010, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, new nations.
World Series, 2009 and every [...]

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By Gene Novogrodsky

Bob Dylan, out of the North Woods,
Plays in a Minneapolis coffee shop,
And the three coeds keep saying, “Man-eet-toba.”
“Let’s go up there, right now,” one says.
“Yes, to Man-eet-toba,” another says.
“Come on. It’s only 11 now and we can be there by 3, night drive,”
The third says.
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