Forty-five years together.
Good times and bad.
In love and out.
Yet always persevering.
Tenacity and grit
are underrated.
Why not praise them, too?
Together to the end.
It is evening.
This is a love poem.
--David Budbill, from Happy Life
"Maybe if we reinvent whatever our lives give us we find poems." --Naomi Shihab Nye
We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the pen...
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