Fun Being Me.Fun Being Me Jack Wiler CavanKerry Press 6 Horizon Road No. 2901, Fort Lee, NJ 07024 0972304592 $16.00 www.cavankerrypress.org AIDS survivor Jack Wiler speaks of his struggle against the virus in Fun Being Me, a work of poetry that also embraces such diverse topics as what it is like to practically die and live again, money, the working life, sex, and the final reality of death. The easygoing eas·y·go·ing also eas·y-go·ing adj. 1. a. Living without undue worry or concern; calm. b. Lax or negligent; careless. c. , free-verse style treats serious topics with Everyman-style candor can·dor n. 1. Frankness or sincerity of expression; openness. 2. Freedom from prejudice; impartiality. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin, from . A descriptive chronicle of all the daily and sometimes trivial nuances of life amid the omnipresent om·ni·pres·ent adj. Present everywhere simultaneously. [Medieval Latin omnipres , harrowing threat of life's ending. "Sick of Being Sick": I was lying on my back for a month, oh I would get up / to piss or puke Puke Slang for selling off a losing position even if the loss is substantial. Notes: The point at which an investor decides to sell regardless of price has been dubbed "the puke point. , but I mostly / lay and watched tv and / slept and ate. / A skeleton draped drape v. draped, drap·ing, drapes v.tr. 1. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds: draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure. with / a ready-made shroud. // Then I began to move about. / To stir as it were in the world. / I might sit in my little white chair / in the shower or move / out to the living room / to receive a reluctant guest / or shuffle out to the / van from the AIDS center / to see a doctor or a nurse. |
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