Long A hundred and one Poems

Good boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood

The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted, and crazed cranium
I exaggerate too much and so too much,...

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I got it as a gift from my grand uncle Dan who lived to a ripe old age of a hundred and one. He was the type of man that believes in developing the land;...

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It was pretty late in September
and I was over the Billings way
I was riding fence for Freddie White
on the west end of the Rockin Bar J

Well night time can fall pretty early
come along bout that...

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Sing Jamaican style

I love a pretty woman she much older than me,
I love her with all of my heart. 
She tell me I'm too young to be sincere,
When I tell her that we will never...

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I miss you.
Maybe I should tell you.
Maybe I should tear through the distance
with something as simple, as foolish,
as a “hey, you crossed my mind.”

But what if you see my name and feel tired?
What if my...

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Take me back -
to those moonlit walks, with that silver sentinel o'er head,
to what I thought was wisdom, the thoughts to which I was led.

Take me back -
to that one mall where they played that...

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who is that strange pilot? Why is he not in the cockpit?
Naomi tried to stifle her six-year-old son’s shrill voice
although psychic herself, she did not broadcast it in ‘72
he keeps fading away, Tommy said. what...

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What a beautiful day !
Said me as I woke up feeling so tiny
Under the enormous sky above me,
And the incessant greenery 
That hugged me from beneath 
Oh ! How gorgeous it felt !!

Though a bit...

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Cold
04/9/2018


I’ve been sad, cold , so sad, for so long.
I feel mad, old , so mad and so 
alone.
I don’t feel like I ever did belong,
Alone by myself, by myself in a throng.

Empty and hallow,...

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The Power of Love

In open fields, at a musical concert, 
their eyes made contact, setting 
their hearts ablaze,
Not even a hundred-and-one things
could distract them as they were in 
a dreamlike daze,
They walked through the crowd...

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Happily bonded to the ground
They crawl in curiosity
Speak in strange tongues 
understood only by the gods that made them.

Their smile, a glow of the crescent moon
That calms wandering thoughts
Heal broken hearts 
And bring departed souls...

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dandelions were stretched out along the roadside spent
wild lavender thistles were shriveling into brown stalks
we had no air in our car, it felt like we were in a sauna
the first few seconds were great, then...

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I love being bouncy, being green, being fun!
I jump and I hop, and I dance all around.
Being chased by children from two to a hundred and one.
I am the happiest tennis ball, easily found.

I have...

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My lungs are black but my heart is pure
My hair is thin and falling out in the wrong places
At this point my days to live are measured with an hour glass 
The size of the...

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