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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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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