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Waiting on my phone to ring Feeling like one of Pavlov’s dogs Your voice is the opium My mind is itching for And something w..

It’ll be midnight soon The midnight moon Shines palely in the sky. The silver night Shines in silver light Like a landsca..

No church in the wild. There’s hunting in the wild But no gathering - No cathedral, no altar Where the faithful congregate There’s..

Something makes my chest stir Every time I think of you That oval-shaped, peach-hue face With those light brown teardrop eyes And ..

If I died today And suddenly my life was finished The roaring flame put out And the fiery spark extinguished - And there remains nothing but ashes..

A poem about my father.

A cow, having eaten grass all its life, ends up having grace said over it one night on the dinner table. * * * The End * * *

I saw you with him today And it killed me Promenading down the street Hand-in-hand He was whispering in your ear Making you gig..

Inspired by Poe

We’re nothing but mere grains of sand On the face of life’s glassy shore Just two grains among the thousands Upon thousan..