What Are You Really Afraid Of?

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By Bud Koenemund

(Written: June 2013)

For Kymberly Hollander

If it be thy rain which nourishes love,
I find myself in drought; lacking even
A cloud to bring hope of relief above
The parched landscape of my heart. O, heaven;
Feed this withering affection that it
May flower anew, growing…

“All children, except one, grow up.” - J.M. Barrie (died: 19 June 1937)

“Just once before I die I want to climb up on a tenement sky to dream my lungs out ‘til I cry then scatter my ashes thru the Lower East Side.” - Miguel Pinero (died: 16 June 1988)

Ignorant, bigoted thinking like this is why I am no longer a Republican. “All men are created equal” means ALL men (and woman). - Bud