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we be / missin your / sunday evening poems
delivered your careful way / through the long distance line
like a new orleanian midwife

 

 

In Future

(an elegy for poet, friend, and mentor Yictove)

 

By Jesse Alexander

In future
literary giants will knock down
stiff
drinks
in coffee houses and bars
up-and-down the eastern seaboard
and come to blows
over the meaning of
you

In future
we will be all
brighter and prettier by
every minute
we've known
you

In future
we be
missin your
sunday evening poems
delivered your careful way
through the long distance line
like a new orleanian midwife

yeah,

In future
sun-babies will recite
you
by heart
& giggle
when they sing the
boom boom!
part.

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posted 31 July 2007

Source: http://www.eyepoet.com/

Jesse Alexander, Trainer/Technical Writer—Jesse is an award winning poet, entrepreneur, and extra class amateur radio operator (call sign WB2IFS), and has designed documentation, and processes in support of design, engineering, sales and marketing for the telecommunications industry. He is a member of the IEEE Professional Communications Society, the Society for Technical Communication, and the Association of Proposal Management Professionals.

Mr. Alexander graduated Cum Laude and Tau Beta Pi with Bachelors of Science and Masters of Engineering degrees in Electrical Engineering from Howard University, Washington, DC.

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update 25 June 2008

 

 

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