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A Poem by JR
I sometimes catch your scent in the strangest places
at the grocery store, when someone passes
and leaves a little of you in their wake
at th..
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A Poem by JR
I knew it was under that rock
big fat brown, undulating with the current
twisting its hips back and forth
trying so hard to not be seen
bu..
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A Poem by JR
So swiftly we snatch for any Paradise
lose our grip, fall again, alone
like Lucifer, denied his throne
tossed out by the hand
from his lof..
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A Poem by JR
They gave him pills because he wasn’t as happy
as everyone else
so he sat in his chair for a year and a half
while people grew older ar..
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A Poem by JR
I watch you
free on this little TV
the things you do
would make a martyr blush
but hey, I’m sure you got paid
somehow
so it&r..
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A Poem by JR
Steel sky, he led us out, nine of us, Scouts, in a line. “Fence
is down, boys, you gotta fix it.” The weight of tin snips, the scratch of..
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A Poem by JR
I want to taste you
the moment I see you
and all holy men say
this is sin.
I’m absorbed by you
in the flicker of a
wing
and all..
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A Poem by JR
Someone, we didn’t know whohad tied this thick hemp ropeway up in that old oak tree, the onethat stretched out over the roadand had for generati..
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A Poem by JR
What good is the lamplighter
when all the lamps have been lit?he used to caressthe turn of their brass
he used to lift the little latch
swing..
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A Poem by JR
2 a.m. is all ghost and bones
where I only awake coughing
or with a need to piss
or the dog was startled and
I always wake up and write
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