Long Susanna Poems

Father and Mother,
years and years have gone by
yet love has kept its home in your eyes.
You've got a love you can sink your teeth in,
you've got a love I can believe in...
Like fresh cut lilacs
and...

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His seared look, from a painted gird brow dons,
a face like Van Gogh with both ears, though just,
as lost, looks about an empty room of challenges,
that is built high on lost convictions, drowns in a,
festering...

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I’m not too sure will I make it
Confusing the day with night
My visions are sure they are naked
And see-through held up to the light
I’ve been thinking it out
Since that thief shut my mouth
With the words...

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If you look at Stephen Foster,
who wrote songs for the minstrel shows,
you wouldn’t expect a genius
that all of the world would know.
He was another bookkeeper
for a steamship company,
until he started writing tunes
that to this day...

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Can you not see?
All the ducks inside your arm?
Did you think hotel paradise,
Came with no illusions attached?
Violins and rats
Rats and violins
Conductor in a white suite
Playing musical roulette
Slow motion squirrels a symphony
Dancing death on my head

Hotel...

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Hearts of men and women around cities and villages bloomed.
Jesus lived among them and moved like a life-giving sun.
Was society as clean as it looked as a groom groomed?
This was the cause of the incarnation...

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Liza B of Yorkshire stock
a tinsmith'a wife
her face bears
     travails of life
Lily B orphaned
in a sad manner
    commissioned
'neath the army's banner
Violet O born in the great war
father Ernest...

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She's the look of a hothouse flower;
She seems to be losing power-
Like a rose in need of summer shower!
Like a bird retreating to summer bower!

Hair plastered, her dress a mess,
She's been under a current stress.
Susanna...

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I'll call her a different name
This girl whom I thought was my dame
On holiday she went
With my money well spent
To Malta she went on a plane

Whilst there she met a waiter called Frank
In bed playing...

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Come back to me
for the old times’ sake,
Oh my Susanna, my love,
With rue my heart is laden,
Come, do come back to me.

Pay heed to the laments 
of my pining heart,
Oh my Susanna, come 
vanquish my...

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for astrid or helmsley, susanna or holden
virgin to the pain
skin not stained by blood that marches like ants
across
down.

closed pink folds
or
an unpolished tip
no tears of acid rain.

we havent heard your heart beat
undeveloped
not dead or alive

swimming through...

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He was born in Genoa,
and his mother was Susanna;
and he set sail at the age of fourteen,
to begin a new exploration age!
His father Domenico
gave him inspiration and courage...
while his three brothers:  Giacomo,
Bartolomeo and Giovanni...

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Bill's Bill


Throughout the land old Billy did strut
on a search for a certain fine butt
Susanna strolled by
and captured Bill's eye
but he tripped when pulled in his gut

Sue laughed at the extent of his plight
before sensing...

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