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Supper with the Phd

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Alcohol, Alcoholism, Coping, Death, Genius, Suicide / September 25, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I sit across from my friend
and watch as he drowns
his well developed brain

Every day after work
he puts another million
brain cell kittens in a sack
and takes them to the lake

It is not for me to judge

This small death each day
may well have kept him from
the larger choice his father made

And a diminished capacity may help
when listening to the daily news
or hanging out with poets

Short Term Careers

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Alcoholism, Death, Fame, Sports / September 24, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Teen idols
Perfect parents
High impact athletes
High functioning alcoholics
Best friends of Vladimir Putin

Widows

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Death, Greece, Survivors, Tradition, War / September 8, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Greece is a land of widows
black dresses with brooms on empty stairs
This comes from ten thousand years of wars

Greece is a land of proud and arrogant men
This comes from lives of great danger
and the supply and demands
of ten thousand years
of widows

One More for Kenny

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Death, Friendship, Grief, Separation / August 25, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We were Siamese cousins
joined at the hip

So adept we never stepped
on each others toes

God the great and clumsy surgeon
has divided us

Wearing the right clothes
the scar doesn’t show
but people sometimes wonder
why I walk in circles

GOD / DOG / MIRROR

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Dogs, Faith, God, Heaven / July 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

GOD IS DOG IN A MIRROR
DOG IS GOD IN A MIRROR

KENNY HAD ALWAYS
A DOG AT HIS SIDE

NOW HE LIVES IN THAT SPACE
BETWEEN MIRRORS
WITH ONE ON EITHER SIDE

Cemeteries Not Few

Audio Recordings / tagged Connection, Death, Grave, Mourning / June 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Cemeteries not few
are covered in grasses

How strange how seldom
we walk barefoot there

Most Funeral Pews

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Grief, Love, Mourning, Regret / June 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Most funeral pews are filled
with shoulda said I Love You more

while those who said it every day
wish for more days to have said it

but with no wish to change pews
with those who never said it

A Manx’s Tale

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Cats, Death / May 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There’s nothing as strong or as fragile as life
And nothing as soft as a kitten’s purr

And I’m awake and I’m sad and it’s three in the morning
And it’s mothers day and she doesn’t even live in kittens

She and Jane would curl up together while I stayed
up and wrote or worked or worried
Later I’d slip quietly into the warmth of
steady breathing and the soft blanket
of sound it rested on

In the night (not fickle but generous) she would go
from bed to bed and bring to each of the children the
comfort they might need
and lay down the same soft cushions
for their sweet dreams

I don’t know what her life was or where it’s gone or
how to say thanks, and I can’t sleep

It’s two days now since she’s been around
and the bedroom echoes
with the absence of her sound

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For C.A. Wiles

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Connections, Death, Shakespeare / May 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

As I was saying to C.A. the other day

Well actually I wasn’t
but wished I would have been
If I had known he was dying any day

I would have said
You are my twice removed
and now about to be removed
connection to Buffalo Bill
where your father worked
the Wild West Show

I made note of it
in a poem
you might recall

And I would have said
I want you to know I am as proud
to have shaken your hand as his

And I would have said
You are a prince among men
and among princes

For, though Shakespeare
may not have foretold it
there may be as many
in Texas as in Denmark

I would have said all that
or met and not said it at all

And yet C.A.
if you and I should meet
some ghost-lit night

as you step down
from your ghost rider rounds
to ponder your own
sweet moon-blanched skull
as a princely poet just might do

I would say I’m sure along with you
and every poet here

Alas poor Yorick
we did not know you well
we did not know you well enough

Image of Buffalo Bill Coin by WilliPuschel

Easter Saturday

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Jesus, Miracles, Rebirth, resurrection, Sacrifice / April 8, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The impossible has happened
(silence)
The impossible is about to happen

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