Poetry: Cryonics and other immortalities
By Grayce Scholt Jun 2010
Twenty-five earthworms
in March moonlight
are strung between black
snowbanks by a curb.
A dog comes barking,
barking. Summoned,
his man plucks
the squirming strings
and drops them in a pail
and takes them home
where in his kitchen, neat,
he packs the wriggling clump
in foil between two TV dinners —
turkey, ham and sweets.
"Good for trout,"
he tells the dog and
slams the freezer
shut.
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Grayce Scholt is a retired English professor from Mott College who wrote art reviews for the Flint Journal. Her book of poetry, Bang! Go All the Porch Swings, is available online from Amazon and locally at Pages Bookstore in downtown Flint.
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