Transpiring Time

By Regina Alberty

My dear readers, here is another slim book of semi-poems, stories and quasi-meditations. As usual, I have gathered the material from talking to New Yorkers who arrive in the City from all countries of the world. This is a work of fiction; I have edited the material and sometimes merged similar stories into one. New York is full of people with interesting backgrounds. The City is known as the melting pot, and also as the Big Apple. Sadly, some apples have worms in them. But apples are healthy fruits and you can choose the good parts and discard the rest. While I may not have done justice to the stories I was told, the people who told me about their backgrounds were really nice people. I am grateful to them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669853008

Regina Alberty

Regina Alberty is a poet by avocation and a lawyer by profession. She is a longtime resident of the City of New York. Her poetry speaks of her daily experiences in a constantly changing urban environment. The author acknowledges that the City has been preeminent in the development of her appreciation for those moments when the only thing to do is to record an emotional response to an event that transcends familiarity.

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CONTENTS

1.     We Saw The Marching

2.     A Large Hall Full Of Black Folding Chairs

3.     Insanity Is Contagious

4.     The Pro Life Activists

5.     Many Years Ago

6.     Some Questions

7.     This Is About The Women

8.     I Fell In Love With You

9.     Why Do We Pretend

10.   Women, What’s Wrong With You All?

11.   The Truth Is What Remains

12.   When Freedom Matters Above All

13.   There’s A Pile

14.   Washing The Pots

15.   Life Is Dangerous

16.   The Flower Vase Fell And Shattered

17.   He Landed Two To Three Feet

18.   I Have Lived All Of My Life

19.   This Blank Page

20.   I Chose Life Over Death

21.   A Human Being

22.   Yesterday On My Way Home

23.   I Know You Are Not There

24.   Death Walks Alongside Me

25.   I Had A Close Encounter Today

26.   After So Many Days

27.   You Have Heard It Said

28.   The Heart Is An Inflatable Organ

29.   Procrastination

30.   Entropy Defines Me

31.   Silence Reverberates

32.   It Is So Quiet

33.   If You Would But Listen

34.   I Am A Useful Person

35.   I Can Get By With A Few Things

36.   On Becoming A Retiree

37.   We Mature Making Decisions

38.   And There He Was

"No one sees a flower, really - it’s so small - we haven’t time,

And to see takes time."

Georgia O’Keeffe

WE SAW THE MARCHING

We saw the marching Neo-Nazi

Contingent in Richmond, torches lit,

Chanting anti-Semitic affirmations

By all appearances re-enacting a

Nightmare from the twentieth century.

And the media said; "It appears but

Is it?" Yes, it was; right there on TV

Clear proof that the anti-Semitic

Cancer felt safe marching down the

Street in clear sight of the cameras.

And, Trump said; "They are good

People, and the media said, Maybe

He doesn’t support them". Yes, he did.

It appears to me that the most obtuse

And spineless people are those hired

By the cable and