So You Think You're Having a Bad Day?

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I found this poem in todays paper in an article about Thomas Lynch a Michigan Mortician and Poet.

"There is nothing like the sight of a dead body to assit the living in seperating the good days from the bad ones. Of this truth I have some experience. Many's the day I would awaken in gloom - a darkness left over from a dream or the night's drinking or a dread of the day I was awakening to.. It was there, in the parlors of the funeral home - my daily stations with the local lately dead - that the darkness would often give way to light. A fellow citizen outstretched in his casket ... would speak to me the silent code of te dead: 'So you think you're having a bad day?'"

From "Sweeny Revisited" by Thomas Lynch

-- Mark in NC Fla (deadgoatman@webtv.net), March 18, 2001

Answers

Thanks Mark , lately I've benn having alot of "bad days" and have to remind myself it could be worse .

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), March 19, 2001.

Patty, I'll keep you in my thoughts. Kim

-- kim (fleece@eritter.net), March 19, 2001.

Yes thank-you for that reminder. I, too, feel that I am going through a time of testing, and yet to still have my health and my life seem to be more important than anything else. Does anyone ever feel like they can't see the forest for the trees? Dee

-- Dee (drebai@yahoo.com), March 20, 2001.

thanks Mark for sharing. patty... i will be praying for you to have better days, sometimes we are just tested in our faith and walk with the Lord. I will say that no matter how bad it gets for me i realized i needed to thank him/her for the fact I woke up and can get out of bed, have my senses and can have another day. guess we sometimes take the things we have in life for granted. take care.

bernice

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), March 20, 2001.


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