PASSING TIME

Your skin like dawn

     Mine like musk



 One paints the beginning

       of a certain end.



     The other, the end of a
        
            sure beginning.





MAYA ANGELOU    (recently deceased)














....

a purely human testimony

“I Just Can’t”



by

Mort Escanduleous


 


sleep    
 eludes
  me
   always
    never
    cannot
     sleep
     cannot
      escape
       the
       sound
        the
        droning
         ear
          plugs
           head
            phones
             white
              noise
               tv
                nothing
                 works
                  no
                   hope
                    no
                     end
                      no 
                        rest















.