Fragment #7

Come Occupy
Space Now Yours For You to Lie
Held By Bluest Eyes

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Fragment #6

Over Small Shoulders
Words She Felt in Black Wet Ink
Sorry I Sneaked a Peek

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Lover, Stay Awhile Longer

He's Now Three Months Into a Weekend Fling

All The Hand Holding, Words Drenched in Honey 

She Thinks He's So Funny But Knows Not a Thing

Of Whats on His Mind "We Need to Talk, Bunny"

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Fragment #5

Pick Two Days Ago
Daffodils Kept, Dry and Still
Happiness Slips Slow

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What In The Name Of God

Spanish Absentee, This Pious Empire Free
Barbaric To Your Bone, A Money Lenders Stone
Missionary Pyre, Take Another Flyer
Notes On  A Scandal, A Widow's Burning Candle
Suicide Survivor, Too Old To Retire
Flesh Off A Pauper, Barren Woman's Daughter
Ritual Surprise, Burn Blue Collar Ties
Meaning In A Poem, Theme, Image, Tone

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Fragment #4

Bog Folk Sleep Slowly
Autumn Embers Burning Out
Summer's Back Pains Too

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Fragment #3

Water Pistol Kill
Grass Stains Pains Stop Summer's End
Until School Comes In

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Mid-Life-March

In The Middle of March
We Sit and We Wait
Grown-Ups Are the Burn-Outs
Love Limits to Their States

Its Not Called a Compromise
When You Show Defeat
None of That College Talk
More Grit in Their Teeth

Just Less Than They Deserve
Never Hope For the Best
Lyrics to a Smith's Song
Heaven Knows From the Rest

"Lived in a World Which
The Other Knew Nothing"
These Sound Like Regrets
More So Than Lifes Sting

Excuse Close to Dead Hand
Of "Baby, That's Life"
It's Something You'll Repeat
But Baby, That's Strife

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Fragment #2

Hours Slowly Hands Pass,
Words Fallen on Sleeping Ears
Morning English Class

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Fragment #1

Silently in Name
These Fragments Have Their Snapshot
Of People Who Came

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Needs Re-Vision

When Homes Can Fall in a Weekend Flood
Tastes of Bad Blood Inside Four Fallen Walls
No Longer as Tall For Mine and Your Good
Been Cut Where I Stood, Burning Like Fallwood

Choose a New Breed, With a New Name
When Feeling the Same My Fire Has No Need
Still My Words You Read to State Your Claim
There is No Blame Yet Who's Freed Shame?

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Meet You On The Road, Brucie

We Dont Have Nebraska and We've No Badlands

Don't Have A Harmonica, or No E Street Bands

Just Same Dirty Streets And Same Job 'Til

All And My Sister Gets Her Ice Cream Fill

Its Where My Ma Figured My Wedding Band

Congregation and The Preacher Go 'Head and Stand 

No Waitress Putting A Match To Her Dress

'Cause Its Just Me and This Unholy Mess

No Brothers Listening to a House On Some Hill

At The End of Every Hard Earned Day Alone Still

Honest Jobs Ain't Paying So Well These Days

Borderlines Ain't Worth Nothing Round These Ways 

Gota Find Gas Station With Pay Phone Outside

Final Call, Fill Her, Outa' Town I Have to Ride

Mr Tells Me My Numbers Ain't In

"I Aint Ever Gona Ride In No Used Car Again"

(Inspired By Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" Album) 

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Everything Was Perfect, Wasn't It?

You Only Get One Dance and I Left My Chance

Isn't Every Character Dead if They are Left Unread
If I Love You is Never Said, No Blood To Be Bled

Yet Still These Silly Tears and Awash With Loveless Fears
You Two in Future Years and I'm The One Who Disappears

I Feel This Rising Bruise, From the Months Took to Choose
A Feeling I Can No Longer Refuse, Someone I Can't Lose

It's Probably Too Late, But I'll Sit and I'll Wait

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Number Two

Once was Too Much of What You Don't Deserve
Not Sure as to What Purpose This Poetry Serves

Only Another Way For Me to Say it Will Be OK
Hurts But Your Supposed to Feel Like Shit Today

It's Not The First and It Won't Be The Last
You Need People To Fill Up Your Past

I Wish I Could Share What it is You Feel

I Am Sorry These Words Won't Help or Heal

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But I Want It Now

Patience Works for Some But Wont Catch Youth's Eye
While Empty Pages Stand- By in a Parent's Photo Album
All Need's Be Numb To the Dream Factory Supply
As Long as it's Nigh, I Couldn't Care What May Come

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Turner Said It First In "No Buses"

Too Many Plots, No Ending is Right
We're Full Light With Nothing to See
Mulled Over Tea, So Close That Night
Three Months Time Where Will We Be?

These Words May Speak to Neither of You
But Why These Two, No Air in These Bands
Too Deep to Stand, Still Haven't a Clue
As to Toil in Which Land, Who to Pursue

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There's Awkward And Then There's...

Words Don't Go
There's No Thought Yet
Words Don't Go
Please Just Forget

Words Come Back
Broke Out The Cage
Words Come Back
Set The Clown's Stage

Words Fall Away
Against You Hold It
Words Fall Away
And Turn To Shit

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Familiar Terms

It's Not Weakness
When It's Been This Long
What's Bound To Happen
Can Never Be Wrong

Before Was Love
But Painful Still
Can We Return
To Right Until?

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