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Spring Runs cold and dim Upon slick black roads Through optimism’s Still beating heart Spring Is vile and bitter The bane of frail skin Off-color and dead Spring is a lush A hate-ridden fool Never sparing us a moment In the kind rays of old
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A heavy silence remains Once the worthwhile songs Have deserted the mind In a flash of sorrow
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Scrambling the week’s affairs Beneath quivering skies Ablaze and frantic Sprawled out, dumbstruck In a haze of cheap emotions The spawn of a torrential swig All the moments take hold Of the nightly currents To meet the broad shores Of a placid new dawn And all the cruel moments Are hammered away Into the crisp…
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I have yet to begin To stun, to amaze To draw the raging ire Of space and time I have yet to be involved
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Overrun By foreign concerns Engulfed By their distant wrath It grows First snails pace Then all around In menacing Horrible abundance Until nothing more Can be forced from your lungs
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Beloved Emboldened Firm The lights of my eyes Flourish And thrive among strangers Among the boastful many Who coast in freeform Beyond, the corners of my sight Briefly beloved To the pavement’s end I’m the passing bloom That wavers In the maw of each dusk








