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MUD PIES
I do a really good job of writing really bad poems. Since I write as many poems as some people go to the bathroom (for better or worse), God or natural law or the cosmos or what one believes is the...
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SHOVE
take me make me don’t let me go play me slay me i’m helpless you know crave me enslave me i’ll follow your lead love me shove me you’re all that I need.
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LONELY LIFE
I know all about it The hours of silence Your pacing back and forth Mind racing Never ending To and fro Here and there All alone How you are What you do Lonely life I see it all over you The wear and...
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ROCK MAN
rock man he says no he’s not much of a rock man he’s not anything rock many he says yes he does tinker around some fools around a bit he would like to write and sing and play music too he has the...
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AIN’T NOTHING
i can’t help it i won’t help it i ain’t never gonna help it the way that i feel when you walk in the room no logic or viable reason for the things that you do what they’re doing to me ain’t nothing...
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YESTERDAYS
these are the old days the good times yeh that’s what they are the times you remember and never forget the ones you look back on with little regret these are your yesterdays the younger days that...
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LOVER NOT A FIGHTER
Nowadays there’s so much tension Cause enough it’s fair to mention What’s so wrong with burning brighter? Be a lover not a fighter Why not kiss instead of diss? Why not smooch instead of hooch? A claim...
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TIME LAPSES
long days short nights more of the same friday saturday start again the days go by then weeks and years the more time lapses the less i fear cause nothing out there will stop me although what matters...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD
Happy birthday It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you Over twenty years at least I remember the last time like it was yesterday But that’s not what I remember most I remember the day I forgave you...
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OCEANS
Just published in the Spring 2013 issue of the Stone Path Review How can you dream Without grandiose notions? How can you sail When you don’t have a breeze? How can you change When you only have oceans...
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CULPRIT
the faucet drips and drips the sands land in the hourglass the alarm clock rings too loud the gas light goes on in the car five shot dead in seattle the sun’s coming up again the heat’s kicked on cause...
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OH WHY OH
you’re far, far away not me i’m right here it’s you that is gone and to where i don’t know yes you now you’re gone not so long ago not me you were here i can still see your eyes the last time you were...
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BELFRY
my house is haunted i know, i swear, i feel it bats in the belfry the eighteen-nineties that was a long time ago an english basement where the workers lived well that’s the story and those weren’t...
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WHITE SPACE
don’t read my words you don’t anyway read between them between each sentence above and below them side-to-side the looking is better the white space is where like here the before and after the pauses...
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THE LAST THING ON MY MIND
I’m having a fun stream-of-consciousness moment, so welcome. I’m in a free-hand kind of mood, so suspend belief. I have a music thing is where I’m at and sometimes I know it’s my own little secret, one...
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THIN AIR
you tell me what i need i tell you i don’t need much you tell me the things you think i should want i tell you i don’t want anything you tell me what’s best and how i should live i tell you i’m already...
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ALREADY THERE
to and fro again up and down and all around here and there and back and forth is the case ahead then behind one step forward two steps gone so just start over try and try and try to keep moving all the...
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TAKE
i have a stake a make or break i’ll have my cake and eat it too and won’t forsake the pain and ache here in my wake my heart is true no matter what if ands or but why scurry hurry shake and worry run...
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NO POETRY
I’ve no poetry only malaise. Life intrudes and I’m unable to believe in diatribes and excess and flourishes and pronouncements I just can’t. I’ve no poetry only strife. Real obstacles that make me...
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PRIVY
you’ve too much time on your hands as if as if i’m hanging around lollygagging as they say simply biding my time running ring around the rosie sitting fully unpreoccupied not a finger i’m gonna lift...
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