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A Poem by JR
There ain’t enough beer
in here to take it awaynot enough drink in
this whole bar to drown itno, it waits there,
under the stooldown around y..
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A Poem by JR
“This is really about
self-confidence, boy. Ain’t nothing but believing in yourself. Trust that you’ve
done the work. Trust you sp..
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A Poem by JR
I stand at the threshold to the thresher
my fingers have coated with ash
mind runs on oil gone bad turned black
heart like leather, creased a..
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A Poem by JR
The ocean is fathomless and cold
but I am like the rain, chattering
and stumbling down from above
the ocean is fathomless and cold
but I ..
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A Poem by JR
I have old memories
of driving into Tahoe as a kid, and there’s this part of the road where I seem
to recall us straddling the mountain. On on..
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A Poem by JR
“Them girls
always say they want a nice guy, but they don’t, man. They want an a*****e,
someone with a complicated history and an arrest..
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A Poem by JR
“You don’t care about
nothing,” you said
still looking for your underwear
I see it, I see it there
on the floor, at the ..
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A Poem by JR
“It was kinda
like I became a bird, one of them big ones, but powerful, an eagle or somethin’,”
he said, settling himself on the c..
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A Poem by JR
It’s my soul you swallowed, Valentina
not the skin of my lips
nor the flesh of my tongue
not the stone of my insistent thrust
nor my..
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A Poem by JR
Oh my boy, you say the devil is trickyyou say he directs my wandering eyeand twists the good of my mindyou say he makes straight ether andcoughs up ch..
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