notes
...How distant do you feel from our ideal life,
and how hard are you willing to go, to get there?
You’ve got to pull a big swing sometimes, to get there, you know?
You’ll flourish in the aftermath.
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Categories:
ronson, america, humor, image, paris,
Form: Free verse
a yellow silk scarf
...A Yellow silk scarf
He bought a yellow silk scarf at a second-hand shop
In Cheshire, the type actors were, when meeting for
A drinks party; the mirror told me he wore the scarf
With seedy eleganc...
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Categories:
ronson, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: ABC
Intermezzo
...Intermezzo
I was in Huelva in 1958, a poverty-struck town in Spain
there were Tivoli carrousels and all that
I met a beautiful gipsy girl barefoot in the dust.
We laughed a lot; I don’t know wh...
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Categories:
ronson, blessing, books, break up,
Form: Sonnet
Mild Obsurity
...Mild obscurity
At the local supermarket, a woman not a day over seventy-five
asked me where she could find unsalted butter spoke
with an American accent.
What do I know, perhaps, she was rela...
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Categories:
ronson, best friend, courage, devotion,
Form: Sonnet
One of My Favorite Albums
...One of my Favourite Albums
One of my favourite albums and I’m sure it’s not just me,
Is Hunky Dory by David Bowie,
Because no other album sounds the same,
Except for Ziggy Stardust but not Alad...
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Categories:
ronson, art, celebrity, fun, music,
Form: Rhyme
Missing Person
...Suzy Ronson was a window cleaner
even stories high she was a leaner.
She reached much too far
lost grip on the bar.
Not a person around has since seen her....
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Categories:
ronson, hurt,
Form: Limerick
Englishman, Jackadandy, Spy
...He made no move at all
As the alarm clock went off.
But ten minutes later,
It was obvious he was awake.
He lifted himself out of bed
And went towards the bathroom.
He shaved himself
With...
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Categories:
ronson, clothes, england, fashion, london,
Form: Free verse
The Ronson
...d it seemed that fools (or generals)
had made the design, and when inside a shaft of pain
shone thru the driver's port, like a circling bat,
Frankie, Jes, Johosephat 20, 19 ,24
so now if I see a Sherman tank memorial (they're all over)
I remember the "Ronson" which took them for a ride,
Frankie, Jes,Johosephat 20,19,24...
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Categories:
ronson, death, war, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Love Story Two
...A Love Story 2
Huelva and the Golf of Cadiz and it was August and in the town
there were laud music and rockets in the air. I had met a gypsy girl
she wore a white blouse and a red long skirt sh...
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Categories:
ronson, beautiful, cute love, first
Form: Sonnet