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after sixx
this place is like a ghosttown these days
walk down the barren streets, pale in the lamplight
hunch my collar against the wind
there’s a scrawny mutt cowering in the alley
been kicked too many times
and if I said my own name
his eyebrow would rise & he’d bark once for ‘what?’
even uptown where the traffic snarls & spits
my luck’s as ragged as crushed Camel butts
can’t beg a handout or bum a smoke
can’t even get laid
insomnia’s my only blessing
can’t dream if you don’t sleep
the heart is still a hunter
in the dim alcoves of a ramshackle tenement
where love’s an illegal drug
those far-aways & long-agos
still kick me in the back pocket of regret
the country girl who needed a man
to reach the candy jar on the high shelf
or the gypsy-eyed rodeo widow
who slipped out of my lariat
it’ll be another rainy night
and I can’t find a disputatious newspaper to cover my head
so I jam my hands in my pockets
and go home
cold-hearted as I am, I still pity them
who need the wax blowtorched outa their ears
nobody hears the poetry anymore…
(got to have my sixx fixx)
Published 29th Oct 2013
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29th Oct 2013 6:52pm
The captivating imagery
pulled me along
from the first to the last line.
So hauntingly written!
Kudos to you!
pulled me along
from the first to the last line.
So hauntingly written!
Kudos to you!
Anonymous
29th Oct 2013 8:00pm
There are those of us who still hear it above all the noise. Keep it coming, always...
29th Oct 2013 8:14pm
As you may know, insomnia's an old blessed "friend" of mine, as well. Still, we gotta be the dreamers, the poets who keep the torches lit for those who see our flickering lights in the darkened distance, chin up & cutting through the mucky-muck. I feel ya on this one, John.
I'm not sure if it was intentional or not but I'm taking this one personally john. The crushed camel butts, the back story of a country girl, and the need to feel loved despite the loneliness of clinging on to the need of being miserable and writing poetry about it all while knowing the poetry doesn't love us anymore.. Yeah I'm claiming this as mine. You did again blues, dumbstruck me with your words.
30th Oct 2013 1:49am
oh it's intentional, sixx. you break right into me with your street vibes...
Not only do we hear the poetry, but we feel the poetry too, at least I know I do... And I feel his strive...
30th Oct 2013 3:32pm
Now you've done it! How cold is this line you wrote, " insomnia’s my only blessing can’t dream if you don’t sleep the heart is still a hunter in the dim alcoves of a ramshackle tenement where love’s an illegal drug." No need for hot sauce this piece is spicy enough. Superb job!
yes, poetry was always only for few, alas,alas..
poignantely written, 4th stanza is very impressive.
poignantely written, 4th stanza is very impressive.
31st Oct 2013 00:03am
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12th Aug 2017 7:23am
Damn if the empty wasn't loud in this Write,
the wander is full of memories and the missing always lingers~Echos with want for better times!!!\\
Love this Write John~ Well Worthy of a Trophy!!!
the wander is full of memories and the missing always lingers~Echos with want for better times!!!\\
Love this Write John~ Well Worthy of a Trophy!!!
12th Aug 2017 8:43am
.........By the way John...for me...Your timing of this post was impeccable for me.
