Advice for Medical Patients...

...here are the answers to the test:

1. B

2. D

3. A

4. C

5. D

6. A

7. Essay Question.(You're on your own!)

I just don't understand this world sometimes.

Any number of people in the city of Miami cannot pay down their credit card debt, and yet in less than a month now, the Super Bowl will be staged there, and those poor saps, instead of being there live, instead shall have to watch it on teevee with most of the rest of us.

America finds itself in a recession, and yet football stadiums are built that by themselves could cover Texas.

There is ten percent unemployment in this nation, the same one where lazy executives play golf and drink Old Granddad while making handshake deals to divide America even more among themselves.

I'll bet you that right now, driving down Fifth Avenue, some poor guy is freezing to death while somebody wheels past in a Maybach and turns up his nose.

God alone knows how many people are buried under the ruins of their homes in Haiti, while back in Tampa, people argue over which cruise liner has the most children's activities, someone on WNYC is giving home repair tips, etc.

I guess what I'm saying is this: I don't know why there is evil in this world--there shouldn't be. I don't know why bad things happen to good people--they needn't. If everyone lived in their bliss, followed their hearts and intuitions and nurtured their spirits...

It's like Resurrection. One character tells another, "If only we loved one another like we say we love God, there wouldn't be this much bother in the world."

You and You Alone

I am part of you now
Like an arm or a leg.
I know for your love
I’ll never have to beg.

We are greater than friends,
Closer than lovers
No one will ever peek
Under our covers.

Our bonds are too deep,
Our love is too strong.
The sounds of a happy life
Carry us along.

You bring me such happiness
And shower me with grace.
Your purple-and-golden glow
Follows you everyplace.

I’d move heaven and Earth
If it meant I could see you smile.
For your velveteen kiss
I’d run a million miles

The world can never know
And others never understand
How you and I could have
A passion so grand.

I love you
You and you alone.
That love is stronger than
Anything I’ve ever known.

December 28, 2009

It was such a beautiful day today.

Nice and cool,
Just like early fall in Pennsylvania
Or Winnipeg when it sizzles.

Skies as blue as tropical waters
Dotted by only a couple quiet little clouds.

Breeze to make one’s hair
Stand on end.

Gorgeous enough,
You could spread wings
And fly.

So precious
It could make even the hardest heart
Cry.

It was such a beautiful day today.

I wish I could have seen it
Through the seafoam green walls
Of my office.

Morning Angels


Do you ever have those mornings
When you wake up
And all you feel
Is love?

I have.

I don’t see the bare back of my wife
Or the smiling, cherubic face
Of my child.

I see nothing
But the ceiling.

But the love…
Oh, God.
The love reaches to the heavens.

I feel my angels watching over me.
Their faces are the ones I have loved
My whole life.

Parents
Grandparents
Dear confidantes
And friends.

All are there for me
When I open my eyes
To tell me
They love me.

Their love gets me out of bed
And makes me smile.

I am buoyed by angelic love
If only for a while.

Song of the Angel

When the water seems too high

And thrashes all about

Call to me.

I’ll swim with you

And pluck you out.

When the bullets start to fly

And you’re forced to cower

Ask for me.

I’ll be your shield.

I’ll give you power.

If the noises are too loud

And the anger too great

Bring me close.

I’ll give you peace;

It’s never too late.

I am your angel.

Your cries for help

Are music to my ears.

Your smile and your joy

Are my reward.

Why wouldn’t I love you?

Why shouldn’t I care?

You’ve loved me enough;

You’ve always been there.

I am your angel.

I love you so.

Call to me always;

I’m here to make you glow.

Wherever I go,

My Angel walks

with me.

Wherever we go,

There is Heaven.

Wherever Heaven is,

there is where me

and my Angel

shall be.