Saturday, December 9, 2006
Crash And Burn (A Post-Mortem Inquiry Inspired By The Bangles)
Checking out the scene walking the streets can't stop for miles on foot through the backstreets the alleys I left my jacket behind a dumpster bought a new one used in case anybody's looking for me keeping low watching for cars ready to dive for cover can't help it old habits die hard And so do I
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Thursday, December 7, 2006
Crash And Burn
I tried I really tried to keep it together but something snapped deep inside and I ended up crashed and burned Carry me from the wreckage, I can't stay conscious any longer barely holding on I am dying
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Crossing The Rubicon
I take my life in my hands crossing the streets I watch carefully and look for each driver's intent for many, most do not signal only take flying turns, cellphone in hand and I the wary target must leap like a deer for the curb or risk becoming a statistic another pedestrian against car, and badly...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Crocodile Tears
Glorifying the cemeteries of dead soldiers praising the young men who died sent to their deaths by old, cynical wizened polticians so that their photographs may be spread around and shed crocodile tears over
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Saturday, December 2, 2006
We Go A-Wassailing (inspired by .Dave)
To sing and play a happy tune to breathe freely relax and laugh amongst friends and let my hair down and shake it loose from the hat I've been wearing let down my guard and smile bake pies, toss quips over wine and set a merry table with puns and silly jokes My Christmas Dream
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Requiem For Baghdad
You live in a shell You live in the past and talk about war you're building a wall You cry send more boys to their deaths it's our glorious empire we're afraid of the rise of the Ottoman Empire again bombs and fierce terorists you cannot or will not see that the bombs are because we've dropped ours...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Fragile (revised per Marie-Claire's suggestions)
Strangers meet kind and cold a look a chance to exchange something of healing
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Fragile
Strangers meet kind and cold a look a chance to exchange something of healing some piece of this missing puzzle we strangers know each other in the grand design no words to express the common pain the bond of a past too difficult to talk about to family and friends in denial because to talk would...
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Unsung Heroes
I hear scraping the sound of ice being chipped chiseled off a car in the pre-dawn blackness someone must be out early to prepare for today's commute I admire their determination and grit to overcome the ordinary courage of daily life of the unsung humdrum mundane endurance of the everyday scraping...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Ode To The C & P Coffee Company: A Song Of Thanks In Sonnet Form
At the C & P, the coffee is good and hot Pete and Cameron let the kids and dogs ascamper Strangers, near and far, wish they had what they have got Each weary traveler becomes a happy camper Firemen, businessmen with laptops, students engrossed in thought Share the tables, couches, chairs with quiet...
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