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An abandoned "Giant Slide" at Coney Island: photo by Arthur Tress, May 1973 for the Environmental Protexction Agency's Documerica project (US National Archives)
As much as he had
when she was buried alive?
His daughter
relentless pain
Killing the strength
of the soul
Bobby's pain
losing
Abby
Is Emptyness
the same
my aunt with my uncle
How you've with blood the memory
The memory of the headaches
It's never fair
but our great age teases us
with knowledge
and supposed wisdom
Who would have thought
There would be random pain to kill?
Pain of non-recognition
not for no reason
the mystery of it going away
Parfait
Parfait
Jim Dine: On Pain from Double Diana with Poem, 2009
when she was buried alive?
His daughter
relentless pain
Killing the strength
of the soul
Bobby's pain
losing
Abby
Is Emptyness
the same
my aunt with my uncle
How you've with blood the memory
The memory of the headaches
It's never fair
but our great age teases us
with knowledge
and supposed wisdom
Who would have thought
There would be random pain to kill?
Pain of non-recognition
not for no reason
the mystery of it going away
Parfait
Parfait
Jim Dine: On Pain from Double Diana with Poem, 2009
Storm clouds, San Francisco, California: photo by franklin_hunting, 26 February 2011