Short Yaws Poems

A ragged cloud from horn-filled hell
Restlessly tumbles and yaws
A silent beam, bounced off this cell
Made echoes hooked like claws

Now the swirling serpent comes again
Caught by radar’s sweep
Against a snake the souls must fend
And wake from slumber deep...

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Intermission gives permission
For a little break
To use the loo or grab a brew
Or stretch, for muscles’ sake.

It helps to know, when at a show,
Just when that time will be
So you can wait to navigate
The line who need to pee.

But if you stream at home and deem
It time for you to pause,
You take control because the role
Of one-in-charge is yours.*

(pronounced “yaws” by New Yawkas)
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Dead grass yaws
Summer heat yawns
Hot fetid breath
On the back of my neck
A predator on the run
As you scream at the sun
And I can't live without 
All the questions and doubt
But they're killing me
And I'm killing me
And the dreaming won't stop
'Cause I can't wake up
Do I even want to 
When it's the truth that I'll return to
Like a rhythm without a song 
Like a bell without a gong
Like a 
Dead
Beat....

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