Obituary

"Artie Gold, one of Canada’s finest poets died on St. Valentine’s day, 2007. Gold, an honoured disassociate member of the Vehicule poets died peacefully after a long battle with emphysema and with most of the world. From those of us who loved you and your “small & mean” ways and you and your “grand and tender” gestures, and most all, you and your poems--goodbye

 

. . .I delight in the sun. it is monumental

 

in the sky with certainty rising, setting

looking to the greater cycle, there is colour,

a yellow angel pedals about the world. (ag)

 

 

 If you wish to sign a guestbook for Artie, go to http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000086493148X

        

 

I have no astrologer -

and don't believe in falling in love

on any particular August day you could name

 

I have knapsacks full of knick-knacks

that spread beneath a tree

would suffocate a hermit

 

and a perpetual cough

that when I've had enough

I'll die from.

 

I came to this city

naked   and from a small town

and have rearranged some of its objects

 

I will hitch-hike out of here one day

with my hair in my eyes and a good breeze blowing and cause a little confusion I'm sure --

 

though no more than a hair

discovered in a gravy.

 

artie gold