Paul David Mena was born in New York and now lives in Wayland, Massachusetts, where he works as a computer professional in the Boston metropolitan area. He has been writing haiku since 1992, has published three chapbooks and has contributed to numerous haiku journals, both on-line and traditional.
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Excellent! with echoes of Raymond Carver; and that's a good thing. Well crafted.
Often when we reach our late stages we can feel out of sync with a fast moving world of technology and over-Corporationization, and feel like ghosts before our time.
Excellent! with echoes of Raymond Carver; and that's a good thing. Well crafted.
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Putting the key words together, and alone:
battered
old
ghosts
Often when we reach our late stages we can feel out of sync with a fast moving world of technology and over-Corporationization, and feel like ghosts before our time.
Highly evocative.
warm regards,
Alan
Alan,
Thank you for the kind words. Being in my late-fifties in a high-tech job I definitely feel like a ghost before my time. :)
Paul
You are still a spring chicken! :-)
I love the delicious nostalgia and echo of sadness in this, Paul!
marion
Great imagery!
old man – on the pier at the end of the line – ghost fish
On the old pier; battered men.
__ Interplacement within the reader's mind… causes further thought. Nice. _m