Tag: OBLIVION
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Hedging your bets (God-wise)

A somewhat cynical yet possibly hopeful poem by my alter ego, Vilém Více, who lives in Prague, one of my favorite cities in the world.
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Reality check

I want my soulmate back But she’s not coming back This I’ve been told on high authority A view not shared by the majority That when you are dead you are dead Finis caput that’s all he said Which I understand I do understand But vis-à-vis the so-called Promised Land It has also come…
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Of cats and the dead

I know a lot of dead people. I don’t call them anymore. I used to dial A for Afterlife. Never an answer. Talking into a dead phone.
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‘Spirit in the Sky’

One of the best Christmas dinners I ever had was sharing a turkey sandwich with my wife at her hospital bedside. She was in the intensive care unit. She was alive!

