Long Torch song Poems

Here’s the thing ... 
needful truth of an urgent matter
Humanity has a Rubik Cube ethnic pride problem:
Dark Age Crusaders of Hate
say the right color is on the genetic wrong side
of the racial debate Holy Grail...

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Half a red beard lays on the floor                           ...

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Apocalypse Beans

Sometimes it seems 
your chest is about to cave in.
You try to catch a breath but 
your heart flutters like a dry leaf;
Just more suburban undulations;
Dressed down for a slow blues song.
Apocalypse Beans sizzle...

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Shadow Muse
              by Odin Roark

What’s a scrappy old ghost to do
Whose graveyard fantasy
Has long passed?

I wander streets and alleys now
Still a companion...

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If I had one last hour with you
would I be able and willing to speak?

What could we say or sing again?
Or perhaps something hidden from view until now,
our final hour,
otherwise left unsaid.

Would words get in...

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[More paraphrase than translation of a Post WWII Korean jazz ballad by the Kim Sisters, sung mournfully as if for an Asian gangster film noir.]

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Exhaling blue smoke wherein
Faded memories brighten
I murmur the lyrics with the...

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There is a weakness I must fight
Bane of my emotional plight
Holding me in its grasp too tight
My kryptonite       My kryptonite

I always thought that I was strong
and with this man...

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Canary girl, we both know what you are. 
A cynosure. I pity you. 

We monde envy your voice 
but know the lyrics to your torch song
are just what you’ve been trained. 
They move no one....

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Dogwood leaves in shades of rust and Merlot
quiver in the first glow of  morning light
A squirrel dances with it’s own shadow
under a veil of Oak leaves in  mid flight
Trees dance with the magic...

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