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"Dirty Old Puerto Rican"

(1848-1953)



He lived, loved,

broke hearts

by the hundreds

ran w/a head full of steam

plowed through

Civil Wars

and World Wars,

all were laid bare equally

and found wanting

to his simple, single

passion

to live.

On and on,

the decades flew by

even as children,

grandchildren

passed to

the other side,

still he lived on.

Death didn't take

him,

steal his strength,

no

he tossed Death aside,

beat her into submission,

and in mid-leap,

raced to the other side,

105 years wiser.

0ver a century

of knowledge

only glimpsed,

forever lost.



by Rod C. Stryker