Short Roughing Poems

Skinny
All american
Gangsta
In
The
Town of
Anadarko
Roughing
It
Out
Under and
Sideways...

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i am pieces of granite wall
undetermined reason for being
tolerating chisel masters
crumbling into dust
falling into bowl of crevice
scraped up into Chinaman’s baskets
roughing up against dainty seashells
fitting nowhere
out of place
out of sorts
out of ideas...

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Silence hangs, air is deathly
.
.
.
The silence breathly
thousands of my voices
They tear at my choices
~tear~
roughing--
till                  I
                                  am
reduced
to                     nothing.      

In the hush of solitude
when no soul lingers near
my own thoughts will rise
the loudest voice to hear
...

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His way of life, I will
never understand
This character, We all
know as, "Peter Pan"
The idea of him taking
a young woman,by the
hand
Only to drop her, for a
more indefinite plan
Such as, "roughing it",
with the "lost boys", in
NEVERLAND
When he can perform MAGIC,
with a single grain of sand
yet, it's He, who AMERICA,
wants by Popular Demand
How ironic, for this Young Boy,
to somehow be, "the Man"...

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Moonlight Come Dance With Me
There's no polyester in the trees
Nothing but mucous membrane
What's writing what's wrong
Pattern of the ole coal miners
Roughing it eating leftovers in diners
A brute abusive husband placed in marmalade
This is how bad men behave
Sun bright burning the heavens
Loaf of bread singles only seven
Nothing left on my dinner plate
Dine at my request

03/08/14
Written by James Edward Lee Sr
from anthology "Up Rising"...

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