Short Baton Rouge Poems

would marry any
any girl from baton rouge
the private open house...

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Laid back flat and floating
On the shady side of cool
Trailing fingers wetly in the pool
Listening to memories rock and rolling
Wailing Janis broke in Baton Rouge
Kick the side and sail into the sunlight
Things can’t get much better for this fool
I think I’ll maybe get another cold one
Tip and sip and savor flavor slowly
Satisfaction’s just  the way to go...

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Listen to poem:

Free Bird's last flight 

I Need You
Midnight Rider
Tuesday's Gone
Simple kind of man
Caught Up In You
Gimme Three Steps
Hold On Loosely
Call Me the Breeze
One Way Out
These Eyes
Blue Sky
Free Bird

Dedicated to Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and backup singer Cassie Gaines, and the flight crew who died October 20, 1977 on a chartered Convair CV-240 bound for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, five miles northeast of Gillsburg, Mississippi....

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