Sad Chicago Poems

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Maimed in Maimi,
Dead in Dallas, 
Cut short in California, 
Obliterated in Oklahoma, 
Consumed in Colorado, 
Fired in Florida, 
Killed in Kentucky, 
Torn in Texas, 
Murdered...

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot's
  Hopes turned into soot

     Her dreams of adulation
     Metamorphed to detestation...

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I thought today I could make it work

it wasn’t so much the sadness

as lightness

as bottled crocodiles and persimmon fungi

as broken arrows across the ascended 

the...

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December 14, 1965           

"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You...

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Descending again from the cloudy sky
over the cold-eyed steel giants,
listening to the same old sad serenade,
the sorrowful flakes are dancing on the winding paths.
Winter's pale...

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My wife of seven years has not noticed I exist
I give her whatever I can but it is never enough
She is looking for something better
Someone...

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         ~~~For Hal~~~

You abadoned me for another. 
Oh, pain,the heart's most unfriendly
love dagger!

Like a fool, I stood...

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Odd such moves
Fill old grooves


Time tells well
My odd spell


Cast of one
Said and done


Day by day
My own way


Notes said brief
No sad grief


Things to do
Me and you


That...

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Chicago.
Wish you were here.
Walk with me in my heart, My Love...

I was expecting more noise on a Saturday night,
But the wind wasn't even up.
(I was...

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I see you sit
Blank without wit


You look so sad
Not glad or mad


I see you look
Like a blank book


You stare so far
A distant star


I see you...

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Blurred speech, stalled hands and feet,                   ...

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Emuedgevoke
when my evening comes
let me come to you
with a song
on my tongue
for I have nothing else
but a song
on my tongue
how sad and yet how sweet
a...

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“Oh maid!

I need a kleenex please!”

And another bottle of brandy for my dreams to drink.

My mind is sinking.

Sinking quickly into the pit of my inner...

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Growing up just outside the CHI
I would spy
Always wondering what lied inside
Waiting for my turn to slide
Then I got the call homie Bob had died
While...

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