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    Terminal Language: Last-Word Poems
    Terminal Language: Last-Word Poems
    Terminal Language: Last-Word Poems
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    Terminal Language: Last-Word Poems

    By Owen Schultz

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    The last imagined words of forty people in 1,100 lines and forty poems.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOwen Schultz
    Release dateJan 30, 2011
    ISBN9781458069184
    Terminal Language: Last-Word Poems
    Author

    Owen Schultz

    Born in Manhattan, Owen has worked loading garbage, digging graves, unloading boxcars, and diving below the waters of Long Island Sound to look for lost anchors. He bought his first Aqua Lung in 1962, and free-dives, kayaks, rows and sails with great pleasure. He mastered six languages sufficient to travel for five years around the world, studying in Mexico, Sweden, Austria, Kenya, India and Japan, learning to respect wildly different cultures, and then taught international students at the Quaker college that took him on this journey. After a stint as a theater manager and set designer in Berkley, California, he migrated to the hard-scrabble mountains of West Virginia, where he cut and loaded millions of pounds of pulpwood by hand and developed a deep appreciation for the grit, strong sense of community, and survival skills of the mountain folk. His more recent pursuits have taken him from designing museum exhibits about everything from salt water marshes. the D-Day invasion of the 29th Regiment, to dinosaurs, and commercial exhibits which included full-size brachiosaurs and huge, fanciful castles. For 18 years, he has designed and written successful grant proposals totaling nearly quarter of a billion dollars for anti-poverty programs to help reverse inequity and poverty in the US. We are in tough times; true stories, he believes, can inform and power our struggles. No one should be poor, undereducated or without a champion in this nation. While the first rule of life will always be Do Unto Others..., and the second rule, At Least Do No Harm, the third rule, he believes, should be Don’t Take Any Shit. Throughout all of these adventures, his passion has been reading good books and telling stories. He has written literary, sci-fi, adventure novels and poetry for thirty years and has never forgotten the power of the tale. He offers Three Buck Books because he believes that everyone should have easy access to a great read. He now writes full-time and lives in Virginia with his wife, Annie, who has brought wild love and sweet sympathy to bear over many years. His books are available through Amazon, Smashwords, AppleStore, Diesel, Barnes and Noble and others. Visit his website at www.OwenSchultz.com for links to his books, free stories, and other great stuff. Visit him on Facebook, Twitter, and blogs at Mindspring.com You can also contact him at ocschultz@gmail.com .

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      Terminal Language - Owen Schultz

      Terminal Language

      Last-Word Poems

      Published by Owen C. Schultz at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Owen C. Schultz

      Cover Photo: istockphoto.com/winterling

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the work of the author.

      Terminal Language

      Last-Word Poems

      Owen C. Schultz

      1. Martha

      First

      I’d like to thank God for

      my blessings they don’t take

      …long to count.

      Second

      I’d like to nail

      goddamned Eddie’s hands

      to a high-crowned roadbed.

      Let the traffic mash him into bluestone

      …like he did to me, spiritually speaking.

      Third

      I send good wishes,

      really, to Julia Cumberly

      who’ll be very surprised to

      know I know her

      but I do, I do.

      I don’t blame her a bit,

      she’s just as ignorant as me,

      filling her sex-hole with

      My Eddie,

      Oh-Eddie-she-cow,

      he dug-gug upon her as he like to do...

      I’d use spikes all mushroomed out

      so he’d never pull his hands from

      the tarmac even if he had the nerve

      which is doubtful,

      I bet Julia

      would thank me in the end.

      Shit who wants to go

      off with all that on

      her mind, you

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