Different Slants

Seeing the World from a New Angle

When We are Seventy and You are Forty

Filed under: Uncategorized — Bob at 6:24 am on Friday, April 16, 2021

by Robert M. Katzman © August 6, 1993 

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To Rachel Jennifer, at Thirteen

When we are seventy and you are forty:

It won’t matter if you

Ever repaired that explosion

You called your room

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Celia of Steel… A Grandson’s Eulogy

Filed under: Uncategorized — Bob at 4:38 pm on Thursday, April 8, 2021

By Robert M. Katzman © September 1997

Better tell God she’s coming

Her Granite Heart is still

After ninety-six years

So far from across the sea

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Better tell God:

Celia of Steel

Is coming

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When “Time After Time” Came Late…by Robert M. Katzman

Filed under: Uncategorized — Bob at 6:39 am on Sunday, April 4, 2021

Almost exactly forty-six years ago,

I met this amazing woman named

Joyce Esther Bishop.

I proposed to her at Midnight December 31, 1977

Telling her I loved her and

Would she marry me?

Joyce said Yes

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