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Thursday, March 14, 2019

MANAFORT DESTINY

by Edmund Conti




Of course there was heartbreak and strife
     As he travelled through valleys and peaks
But he “lived an otherwise blameless life”
     Which he managed in two or three weeks.


Edmund Conti's life is best left unexamined.