“ ALL BUT THE MEMORIES ARE GONE “
I WALK THE FIELDS I USED TO PLAY I LOOK BUT I DON’T SEE
IF MEMORY SERVES ME RIGHT TONIGHT NOTHING’S HOW IT USED TO BE
DRIVING THROUGH MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD IT HARDLY LOOKS THE SAME
TIME HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING IN TOWN ALL EXCEPT IT’S NAME
THIS WAS ONCE A PLAYGROUND FOR A WONDERING LITTLE BOY
EVERY STICK AND STONE I FOUND BECAME MY NEWEST TOY
OUR OLD HOUSE IS GONE A VINAL DUPLEX TOOK IT’S PLACE
MY BACKYARD TREEHOUSE HAS DISSAPEARED GONE WITHOUT A TRACE
THE FIREHOUSE AND GRADE SCHOOL SURVIVED IT ALL SOMEHOW
THEY USED TO SEEM SO BIG AND BRIGHT NOT SO MUCH RIGHT NOW
GROWING UP HERE THIS TOWN WAS YOUNG AND FULL OF FUN
THE CHANGES I SEE NOW SHOW JUST WHAT TIME HAS DONE
I DON’T DRIVE MUCH ANY MORE I MAY NOT BE HERE AGAIN
WHEN I LEAVE TODAY I’LL SAY GOODBYE TO MY OLD FRIEND
WHOSE MEMORIES LIVE ON AS THEY VISIT ME IN BED
RECURRING SWEET DREAMS STREAMING OVER IN MY HEAD
OF EVERYTHING I REMEMBER ALL BUT THE MEMORIES ARE GONE
Categories:
vinal, loss,
Form: Rhyme
believe you me sirandmiss
a country made of this
youIItthem(a blended cocktail conspiracy)
you, Land of Calvin
Klein peacoat peacocks and Maybelline
Girl with cryproof mascara dripping(fashion
-first step lacking substance(of you
I sing: land of Oliver North and Ellen Degenerous
land of malcontent:singing(quietly)humming
cooking cuisine in add-one-minute-microwave
fashion. Shaving with grandfathers
dull razors: regifted dull past-tense,
passe(useless musings) all and every
voice:merrier men singing old songs
for yesterday dancesteps contradict
wants for(pleading) a progressive and peaceful
now. Rome then leaned on decayed pillars
now: chasing barbarian hordless lands
are stray grazing(starved weak) seeking,
singing A-
mer
i
ca, I mourn
you and every-one-of-millions
bitter wanting back gifts given
continually. Awash in(apathetic)
angst:whispers-peaceful-timid-unichs
let freedom echo
hollow. xanex glazed eyelid
americans (sitting in assigned seat,
from a menu)
eating
screaming meekly.
Categories:
vinal, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse