Memorial Day, 2014

It’s not yet June

Yet the lobby brings

Relief from the glare

Of mid-day and the

Fake stone tiles 

Laid down in the hall still

Hold on to night-time’s cool

In their own ersatz way

And I hate to imagine

The utility bills

That will soon be

Heading this way

The Moment Ere

for Michel


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Today I can almost

Feel an electric charge

In the air with the humidity

So high as the pace of change

Accelerates and the plot

Yet again thickens

To the consistency

Of a rich béchamel

But not yet nor ever

Do I imagine it’s likely

I will come to rue the day

We first met Richard