The dark is too bright and I’m falling awake. My pencil won’t write and this paper is fake. This cactus is soft and my fur coat is rough. I love doing homework and can’t get enough. I hate to win and love to lose. I hate exciting games and love boring news. Spiders are my [...]
THE MANSION IN MEMORY LANE
(1)Young Tom visited his great aunt, until he was ten years old, And soon after his next birthday, her old mansion would be sold, Since she died, and he would miss them both, as nine years changed the date. He completed school, did two years work, and started college late. (2)At the end of his [...]
LADY FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE
Is she waiting in the snowfall of an unseen distant plateau, That still lives today on Christmas cards all packed up now? Is that so? Would the lamps that light the pathways put a glow upon her face? Are these images of fantasies all gone without a trace? Is she staring from the window of [...]
CABARET OF THE CLOUDS
Soft footsteps walk through streets near school, Past yesterday’s townhouses. In each nostalgic molecule Is something, which arouses. Old lessons learned so long ago (Viola, drums or trigon) Resurface, just enough to know: Those tunes aren’t fully bygone. A new sound crashes near the bay, And shakes the stone rotunda. The sky shows nature’s cabaret, [...]
day before christmas
twas the day before christmas when all through the mall people were stiriing and some took a good fall they hustled and bustled through the lines at wal-mart on to j.c. penny’s they traveled into the dark spending and spending every last dime they saved away till after new years when they all kneeled down [...]
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