J. Randal Matheny

On FMag today, my editorial with a bit of autobiography for an introduction:

Perhaps I have always thought about death a lot, because in my college days I escaped practically unscathed, without a seat belt, from an auto accident, which should have killed me. Or perhaps it’s because I had chronic abdominal pain as a child and then surgery to remove a kidney at 18. Or perhaps I just have a weird personality. Or an overactive imagination.

Read the article, "When Death Ceases to Be a Morbid Subject."

I tried starting this poem earlier in the day, and it just would move off the first two lines (one and a half, actually). Then tonight it clicked and away it ran. I started it, then left it, on TFR site since things are slow there on Sundays.

If you don't like it, I'll resign my commission. Well, at least, I promise to think about it.