All Hallows' Eve
...It is the only time we get to laugh at black
So de rigeur at funerals and stogy old photography.
Take Dixie Land at home in New Orleans
Parading back of happy brass from marble sculpted sepulchers...
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Categories:
stogy, anxiety, celebration, death, fear,
Form: Free verse
Coffee House Blues
...COFFEE
HOUSE
BLUES
I am
in the A.M.
Am I ?
I think I am!
It is A.M.
in the coffee house
down on MacDougal
down the stairs
behind closed doors
another world
enclosed
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Categories:
stogy, business, life, money, people,
Form: Free verse
Good Ol'E Hard Garlic Salimi and Dried Prune Religion
..."Dearly beloved, "We are gathered here today to witness,
The wickedness of these times."
"Blessed", fortunately, its ending soon."
To radio stations phone-it.
"Wait!, No!, Next month.
"Taking th...
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Categories:
stogy, anxiety, forgiveness,
Form: Ballad
Seafaring Irony
...Its course is set by tended wheel
A man of salt stands at the helm
Not led by maps, but stars reveal
The far off island, called King’s Realm
The spray of mist falls fast upon
The rough exterio...
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Categories:
stogy, life, sad, sea
Form: Quatrain