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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Babylon the Great
Written Memorial Day 2012 Wonderland smoke dims suicide fireflies under a Cheshire moon mocking guerrilla teenagers and confused tongues cry over dirty water dialogue as crude hands sift gold from Babel sand cutting orphan blood lines like teenage wrists with … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, death, Iraq, Poetry, suicide, veterans, war
Tagged Afghanistan, alice in wonderland, bible, Book of Revelation, iraq, poetry, religion, suicide, veterans, war
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Body and Soul
April 22, 2013 Cripple. Gimp. Handicap. Disabled Cripple. Crippled. Crippling emotions on my chest break my back bury my heart sell my soul for a bottle of whiskey Cripple Creek up on Cripple Creek gone fishing one more time cripple … Continue reading
Babylon the Great
Babylon the Great.
Rockwellian Saturday Evenings
Rockwellian Saturday Evenings.
Crushed American Spirit
November 11, 2008 Sitting on main street booze on my breath my stomach growling you walk right by. I don’t blame you I’m a mess a shell of my former self. The uniform and pride long gone the tattoos fading … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, american dream, homelessness, poetry, veterans, Vietnam, war
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June 2009 When I look into her angelic eyes, I see you. Everyone says she looks just like you that she has your eyes… but it hurts. I see you every morning … Continue reading
January 30, 2014
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Halloween
Halloween 2010 We tell our children not to take candy from strangers… except for today, we encourage it.
Time
September 2010 He sat at the dining room table watching the second hand of the grandfather clock as it filled his past with more silence and emptiness tick tock tick… tock.
The simple life of cats
November 2008 The cat is in the backyard he’s climbing up a tree oh what a simple life for the cat that it must be. The dog is in the front yard he’s chewing on a ball what a peaceful … Continue reading
A Million Mothers
Fall 2008 A million mothers cry as a million children die songs of freedom here we sing as we all just get high we spend our days in protest but at night, we’re warm in bed as humanity just starves … Continue reading