careless cracks in lips so free
could waste a friend like me
yet you profess to mind me well
me, plato in whose eyes you, sage socrates dwell
where raphael once dreamt in silent clouds as apprentice bristled bold
to stage an unlikely farce as the curtains now unfold
where in listening for the silent word somewhere else it's heard
that the grass is always grassier and the poetry's absurd
I love you Jim for all you are and what you've helped me see
yet father, brother, mentor, friend, we sometimes disagree
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