by Michael Ceraolo
We once were discrete individuals,
but after we were linked in the FPA poem,
we couldn’t be separated
We went into the Hall of Fame together
We can’t be separated even in death,
and that’s okay with us: it is much better
to be remembered together than forgotten separately.
Michael Ceraolo is a 62-year-old retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet who has two full-length books, Euclid Creek from Deep Cleveland Press and 500 Cleveland Haiku from Writing Knights Press. Two additional books are also in the pipeline:Â Euclid Creek Book Two from unbound content press and Lawyers, Guns and Money from Writing Knights Press.