September 26, 2020
Thought for Today
"The brook would lose its song if you took away the rocks."
Someone
Saturday, September 26, 2020
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Thursday, September 24, 2020
September 24, 2020
SHUT UP!
Just two words.
Just 5 letters.
They work.
Sometimes it causes
the other to shut down –
sometimes for a long time.
“Shut up!”
They are much stronger
than a yawn or a looking
at one’s watch or simply
saying, “I gotta run!”
“Shut up!”
And sometimes they
get us to open up and
tell each other what’s
shut up – down deep –
in our feelings.
September 23. 2020
TORN DOWN HOUSE
Mangled stucco and concrete –
rubble – the remains of the
house that was taken down –
the house where we used to live:
326 – 62nd Street, Brooklyn, NY.
Bulldozed – crumbled – crushed –
till it finally gave in - and caved in -
making room for the Gowanus
Parkway above – now with
thousands and thousands of
cars and trucks and buses -
going though and over where
my brother and I played with
our cars and lead soldiers.
Now our house exists only in
the black and white photographs -
that slip out of the
old albums –
when I page through them –
falling out because the scotch tape
has lost its stickiness. Ugh .... Age….
But wait - now - in
2020 – in this
lost year of the pandemic – I’m
grateful that I have time to look at –
so many pictures and scenes that
I’m realizing are still sticky, sticky,
stuck, stuck - in my memory
- when I go
back there to the 1940’s and early 50’s.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
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