Pretty Was As Is

Down the street an eyelash falls. I am 65.

I have become what I was as a child. Myself.

Pretty was as is, pretty much as I thought she grinned. Mischievous.

Are the stars there for a reason. To catch an eyelash she says,

as the boy speaks and says… I attended Church today.

Who knew that Carter and Rockefeller attended Annapolis together,

I was told. Did they impeach Nixon to keep themselves safe.

Was it the Bay of Pigs? Was it Mayo Bay. The Casinos?

Who else knew that Sen. Jackson was going to be

Bobby Kennedy’s Vice President?

We attended the ’68 campaign in California with Sen Jackson

and went to Disneyland with John Glenn and the Kennedys.

My father had a meeting with John Glenn afterwards.

And I want people to know that Bobby was simply heading through the

kitchen as a shortcut to a press conference where Senator Jackson was

in a VIP Lounge off the main Convention Hall. Peace be with you.