Vernon Mooers writes

                                  The Day Elizabeth Taylor Died 

                             Libya’s getting bombed

                             Sohar is burning

                             I have a TV with three channels

                             local and two UAE sports

                             but the papers cover it and

                             I remember National Velvet and Lassie

                             a childhood, The Three Stooges

                             Old Yeller

                             Reflections in a Golden Eye

                             the girl with the black hair

                             and high riding boots

                             that beautiful woman

                             old in later years and recall

                             how we all pass away

                             like the wind and the sand.