[Jim Moonan]

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100 Word Obituaries


Man In the Moon

Overlooked, he wrote tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of pages of his thoughts and misplaced/lost every one of them. None of it has been found but they are there in the aether somewhere if someone has the time and inclination to look for them. That would only be the beginning. There would be the torturous slog through the meaningless things he bothered to note. Some would show promise, but he was notorious for that: promises. He bristled when someone said he always broke his promises. He said he was always trying to keep them. This makes note of that.


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Norm Snead, Loser

To his detriment, he was an inveterate tinkerer. His sixteen year career was less than successful and he became known to be a loser, though he was well-liked by some children. He was not without honors, but that is not what he was about. He honed losing. A drop-back passer, he took more hits than most quarterbacks. The defense feasted on him. He just got up and tried again. He had a memorable last game. His final failure came unannounced at his home in Naples Florida. His wife declined to disclose the cause. He will be missed by some children.




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[RCL]

Jim,

These are to die for!

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[Jim Moonan]

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Thanks Ralph... So sorry for the delay in responding. It had sat for so long I hadn't noticed it. Incidentally, I must say, too, that of all the half-finished responses to poems, prose, etc. that I haven't managed to post due to procrastination, it would be the ones I've half-written about your work that top the list. I don't know why that is. To this day I remember being stunned by a poem of yours that had to do with aging. Anyway, thanks for reading these obituaries.


Ah, the "slush pile"!

I'm the man in the moon(an).

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