View Larger Teddy Roosevelt’s diary the day both his wife and mother died. His mother died of typhoid and his wife had just given birth and died of kidney failure.
boy you have no reason to be sad
when it reels it’s lonely head in
it’s the best you’ll be forgetting
i can’t climb when i’m too wet in wonder jars
when it climbs inside yours eyes then
it’s your feeling you’re forgetting
stay on your toes, stay wise, and who you are
let it peer in, let it pry in
but don’t forget that it’s all science
biology won’t give you prizes, no gold stars
but it was the star i saw that night
an abdomen with a light on in it
was a view i knew before this lake dried through
and in the star was my old head
it was brighter than the dead one on
my neck i check each time the cold rolls through
