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There is Nothing More We Can Do For You

by Milton Ehrlich


DOC ADVISED:
 
“There is nothing more we can do for you,
go home and settle your affairs.”
 
I only had one affair,
with an elegant Irish beauty,
who glowed
with an enigmatic smile
and the green
of the Emerald Isle in her eyes,
that must have been lit
by underground torches.
With voluptuous bosoms,
and hair as black
as bituminous coal
cascading down her derriere,

I loved every inch of her.
 
She left me for another.
I never recovered.
 
It’s settled.
 

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Milton P. Ehrlich, Ph. D. is an eighty-four-year-old psychologist who has published numerous poems in periodicals such as Descant, Wisconsin Review, Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, Toronto Quarterly Review, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, and The New York Times.
Photo used under Creative Commons from Mike Kniec
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