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Oh So Ordinary

Oh so ordinary
is a hot summer night
when the whirl of a fan
is music in the dark
accompanying 
croaking frogs
in the distance
oh so ordinary
is waking to a glowing
herald of break of day
and the frogs 
now deep asleep
and quiet
oh so ordinary
an electric coffee pot
percolating 
as a toilet is flushed
and a faucet lets go
cool morning water
oh so ordinary
a day goes by
in a rush
while someone
stacks oranges
and red apples
and peaches
and apricots 
in perfect rows
oh so ordinary
that someone
pushes the wheelchairs
and lines them in
a large room
perfect rows
and there they sit
oh so ordinary
memories of
a seasick morning
on a day called D Day
and another of
a train station farewell
and that was that
he never returned
and another
of sawing two by fours
under a cloudless blue sky
in a backyard 
of a tiny two bedroom house
in East L.A.
and another of
a wedding day in 1942
with just a week 
before that train farewell 
and I still feel the rice
a handful my brother threw
as if it were yesterday
and another of
peeling an orange
near a stream
in the mountains
in that beautiful place that
just right now
I don't seem
to recall
but I can still
taste
that orange.

poem by Bro. Bartleby
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