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Too Late
I was born in a red brick hospital
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when doctors still came to the house
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and nurses were nice old
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Sep 26, 2019
The Train in the Night
There is a train beyond my window tonight.
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Far away it is, too far to hear the wheels.
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Only the
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Sep 25, 2019
Autumn Wind
I slumped into my friend the chair and
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Waited for sleep to carry me away somewhere
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While reruns
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Sep 23, 2019
The Act
Her face was an indifferent mask
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As I questioned her about
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The child she was surrendering.
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She
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Sep 22, 2019
Just in Case
I knew he wasn’t there, but I had to stop
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Tried to drive by. Couldn’t do it
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So I pulled up to th
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Sep 19, 2019
We Live Moments
He sends us here for a moment
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When the best of us burn with desires and needs
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And the drives to
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Sep 18, 2019
55 years
"55 years,” she said, “That’s a long time.”
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She couldn’t know the length meant nothing
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What matt
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Sep 18, 2019
Broken Cycle
The petals which had been so red
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Are browning now and bow their heads
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The limbs which held the g
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Sep 13, 2019
The Trenches
She carries the weight of simple things
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Forgotten people cannot carry for themselves:
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Where to s
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Sep 12, 2019
Lost
I looked away and you were gone.
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Though I can still feel you here,
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Smell you in your clothes, /
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Sep 11, 2019
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