blog

pensées

poems

2020s

2010s

2000s

1990s

1980s

1970s

publications


dreams

recordings

verse


books

reading list

wishlist


Mostly Dead



All the bit players of my youth
are mostly dead.
The backdrops have changed;
those scripts would no longer serve.
But they made that world possible,
populating it as they did,
providing the context for my participation.
Most of them I never knew,
but I am grateful to them.
They have been replaced,
but of course it isn't the same.
It is never the same.
Most are dead, or mostly dead,
but they hit their marks when I needed them to.

All poems are written and copyrighted by Michael C. Rush.
None may be republished or repurposed without permission.