Portrait #2

boy with yellowed sallow skin
 seams thin  
have you seen him?
  shaken shaky hands with him?
 poured him greasy shots of gin?
    sang his soulless requiem?
 if you have 
    you won't again
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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September 7, 2008 at 9:19 AM
I don't know whether to laugh or cry...maybe ill do both...any way I like this poem with its rhymes and half rhymes ...and 'shaken shakey hands' x maggie
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