Blue Monday

Blue Monday news...
bombings again in Bali...
perpetrators were suicides
Tourist boat capsizes
…no one knows why
in New York
on Lake George...
twenty-nine die
Poet August Wilson
has died too...
liver cancer was his due
Goodbye ...a great playwright too
Five hundred plus
say goodbye
to South Carolina
soldier killed
in Baghdad
Army Sgt.
Andrew Joseph Derrick
He was only
twenty-five
He would have been home
...just two weeks to go
...had he stayed alive
Bagpipes played low
Seven soldiers
and volleys of three
a distant bugler
played not Taps
but Reveille...
so moving to read
Andrew...Godspeed
More battles in Gaza
Blue Monday news
has left my heart
with a bruise
but wait...
there was Mass
at St. Patrick’s
in New Orleans...
the first since Katrina
was on the scene
Blue Monday news
…most of it bad
St. Patrick’s Mass
being the only
bright spot it had...

No matter how I juggle it
it could not
out weigh the sad...

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