Long Tough nut Poems

Violet Smith lived in Center Kingdom. Her neighbors were Jack and Jill;
Like orange sun, of a pink morning, when it's just peeking over blue hills.

With Mother and Father and sister, Ava, Violet enjoyed life on...

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An Apache pilot once sought for a treasure
In booze, in fun
Sampling leisure and pleasure
Until an Apache chopper gun  

In his attentive ears whispered
Enjoining him to a wound-prone warfront to go
Where the gun the pilot...

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When Thy Heart And Soul Have Both Been Fleeced

When thy heart and soul have both been fleeced
world shattered, thy hidden demons released,
canyons of whirling circles in night dreams
dark rules, no saving light left that redeems.
Life...

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Here I sit in prison in my 8 X 10 cell,
 My own creation a living hell.

    Racial tension is in the air,
 Nothing about this is easy or fair.

  ...

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Drunk asshole thinking you’re hard
You couldn’t throw a punch you ***** ass retard

Your alcohol stench gob slurs and runs away with you
Just turn the volume down and tell me when you’re through

You’re full of vile...

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I am young, a tough nut,
hard to crack.
Thick mud splashes half-blind me.
Bones are jostled, pushed into aching flesh.
I am spun around and dumped,
lifted up shoved back in.
A pummeled nose bleeds into my mouth,
stagger, run, beaten...

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We used to hold hands in public all the time,
not so much now.

You sometimes try holding my hand
out in the open. 
I feel dorky with your hand in mine – sorry.
I hate the thought that...

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You've always been a tough nut to crack
A rigid exterior, sharp and in tact
But you had a soft side, where I drew slack
I crawled inside and that was that

even to this day, you flinch at...

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