(For Stephanie) Love woke you up too early Like the suns unwanted kiss Warming your sleepy cheek. You got up,closed the blinds. It was a day self-defeated to the Companionship of loneliness.A war only Won by the youth of peaceful old age Or a sage smile of pained […]
Life could be simpler To see your friends and foes As either good or bad, Of benefit or useless To just slam the gavel, Hear the echo die As dirt falls from a shovel Until a silent reflection Mirrors the voice That’s always told you To make a […]
(Blow,blow,thou winter wind – Shakespeare) I remember at the frozen foot Of that mountain peaking like home sickness We played in the snow covered field. Some kids stayed,some ran away to be caught Like the few trees broke the chilly breeze. There’s not too many places to hide […]
This is a letter written by a friend that committed suicide soon after it was written.I am posting this because hopefully someone will be edified by it and not commit suicide.Robin and other people helped keep me alive,even though Robin didn’t know what I was going through. Dear […]
“I was PTA so I volunteered to come along With the class and keep you where you belong. About 40 or so kids it was going on a hike. Mrs.Wong was also there, And there was a sign posted saying ‘Stay On Path,Do Not Go Under Ropes’.All the […]
A gust of wind Blew this young boy From the edge of this old canyon. The mysteries of the ageless breeze That’s older than the occult now Blow back the long black hair, Of this occultist or for lack of better words, The most benign satanist. A little […]
It would be simpler To see your friends and foes As either good or bad, Of benefit or useless To just slam the gavel, Hear the echo die Upon the corners of souls Until a silent reflection Mirrors the voice That’s always told you To make a better […]
We had fought For the spot on the couch Like God and Lucifer. I was 12. You were too self-righteous To sit elsewhere. Your 82 now And haven’t taken the chance To get to know the man From the boy. Its hell feeling like a bastard. Is it […]
He heard the story on the news before Going to sleep:Fresno man on meth murders mother. He wondered who it could of been. His cellie turned the volume down. Morning came as dread that pained his bones. The 8oclock news showed his home, His brothers face “I hoped […]
Something calls me back here, From the cell,down the tier The last step, Under the stair like one of those Gathered around a spoon Poking their arms in vain. I’ve wasted time not too soon Pacing around the day room, Programing until I’m insane. The shadow of the […]
The death penalty is mostly An undesired inhumane mercy thats Less barbaric than his victims fate Defending him self from nonetheless. Fear of death usually changes a man. His mortality makes him feel invincible. The whole occurance was avoidable. Had the c.o’s listened to Crespos’ objections, Karmen would […]
A poem. An apple from a poor prostitute Whets a hunger more than His destitute meager freedom Implores for change. Sitting slouched,aged,stranded On a thin weed patched concrete island As cars pass by both ways in waves Of assumptions of his past and presence. “Anything Helps” Is scrawled […]
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