Is God Laughing Yet?

dreamin' — “Man plans. God laughs.” Here’s a man planning.

What else could we think—
Life-soaked helplesslovers— but
Endless days of youth.

HemmingPlay

https://hemmingplay.wordpress.com/about/ More at the link. I remember him. He was sitting in the heat on the dock waiting for the ferry to Okracoke, Island in the Outer Banks, NC. It was probably sometime in '72 or '73. He'd driven nearly 12 hours straight and was so tired he couldn't understand the accents of the natives there. I wonder whatever happened to him? I heard a rumor that he married a skinny Irish girl and they settled down somewhere, had a couple of boys, got old. He put on a few pounds. She's still got the girlish shape that caught his eye all those years ago. He probably still has that shirt, though, and still wishes he looked like this. The idiot.

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January 22, 2016

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3 thoughts on “Is God Laughing Yet?”

johncoyote
February 7, 2016 at 10:14 AM

I enjoyed the poem. Remind me of the verses in the book of Jack London “When Gods laugh”. London believe the same. The gods always win. Even great love lose to death.

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AnnMarie Roselli-Kissack
January 23, 2016 at 3:03 PM

I can think back and though I didn’t know this younger fella – it is easy to imagine I did:)

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- HemmingPlay
  January 23, 2016 at 3:11 PM
  
  I remember the day that picture was taken clearly, and how utterly clueless he was. At least THAT hasn’t changed. 🙂
  
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