Comedy Incarnate, a tale of truth pursued in Six Parts 
                                                                    by Ward Kelley 

An excerpt from Part One:  Lucrezia 

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My final living memory
was of a simple sneeze
there in the restaurant;
I hope someone
mentioned 'bless you,'
for I simply stepped aside,
slipped off to the side of
my dusty body,
blipped off the side
of the teeming,
and now curious: I watched
all the live bodies in the restaurant
ministering to my old carcass,
trying to revive it . . .

Who cares?  Who could care?
Let it go . . . let it go,
it's far better to be
out here aside the teeming,
so let my body be,
let it alone . . .
for who cares?
 
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Ward Kelly has seen more than 600 of his poems appear in journals world wide since he began publishing in 1996.  A Pushcart Prize nominee, Kelley's publication credits include such journals as: Another Chicago Magazine, Rattle, Sunstone, Spillway, Porcupine LiteraryACM  Magazine, Pif, 2River View, Oblique, Offcourse, Potpourri and Skylark. He has been honored as featured poet for Seeker Magazine, Physik Garden, Poetry Life & Times, and Pyrowords. His web site is www.wardkelley.com
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