Pink Mouse Pub

where even the tiniest voice can pinch a nerve.

Singer, Roger
 
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OCEAN WATER

 In a shallow area
 not far from shore
 I slip my fingers
 into ocean water.
 Sunlight sparkles my skin.
 small waves, maybe from China
 ripple their cooling
 Onto my hand.
 Bright reflections,
 floating diamonds,
 crystals formed in sand.
 A canvas of liquid blessing
 worships my fingers.

STREET LIGHTS


 A door slams with a rattle into night.
 Footsteps pass. The sound of a stranger.
 A face unknown.
 The high tide of whiskey and smoke
 soaks the shorelines of sidewalks
 As a city lowers its night curtains.
 Tipped hats and high coat collars
 wade the flow through streams
 of streets.

 Street lights. Fallen stars. Harbors of
 cheap light on gum stained concrete skin.
 A voice. A whisper. A half shadow,
 part gray part black, prefers the without,
 hiding in the color where it lives.

 

 LONELY MOMENTS


 Close onto my skin, the city
 hands me a day of streets and sidewalks.

 I am loaned garbage cans, gutters, pimps
 and store fronts, each smelling the same.

 The aroma of city is divided, sparring no one,
 reaching the sick and blind.

 Sounds of cursing and shouting. Horns
 announce anger and sirens scream.

 Thundering hooves of pedestrians march
 in masses of colors; separate without touching.

 Neon arrows flash into pools of loneliness.
 Still waters wait for weak hearts.

 

Dr. Singer served as a med-tech at MacDill AFB in Tampa Florida for three in half years during the Vietnam era.  While stationed at MacDill he attended evening classes through the University of Tampa.  When discharged he began studies at the University of South Florida attaining his Associate and Bachelor degrees.  In 1977, Dr. Singer attained his doctorate in chiropractic from Logan College of Chiropractic, St. Louis, Missouri.  Dr, Singer has served on Legislative and Practice Management committees for the American Chiropractic Association, lecturing at a number of chiropractic colleges in the United States, Canada and Australia, and has authored over 50 articles pertaining to chiropractic management and legal guidelines for associates.  He has maintained a solo practice for the past 33 years.  Dr. Singer has four children; Abigail 30, Caleb 28 (an Army Captain and Airborne Ranger, Andrew 25 and Philip 22.