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jack-dalton
jack-dalton
Armenian You tell me
My old trumpets and trombone slides Sit unopened and cured with the dusty attics formaldehyde aromas. My lips dry up like mummified beef to their ancient smell of old black bibles and their taped up cardboard tombs. I find myself unable to break their mossy temple structures where I practiced my classical studies and could feel my whole kingly persona taming auditoriums and thrones of asp faced judges. But now my structure and stamina ruined and gone like a ginger bread piano.
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Feb 15, 2015
Feb 15, 2015 at 4:12 PM UTC
My old brass.
Its ok if you came alone You didn't miss much Unless you noticed The woman who Touched the Longest mustache In Poland. She was drunk And laughed At the names Of every cartoon He resembled. I felt like a **** Watching Them murmur Their wry Whispers. Unaware Of the mans friend With giant white ears.
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Sep 17, 2014
Sep 17, 2014 at 5:26 AM UTC
The exhibition.
My golden brass Did you hear a silver tone. One day I remembered the sound we made. Oh boy with thirteen trys I played the song of things. The sound was a still like a drop of rain. Great full Holst composed his eyes in vain. And now im chopping my lips with my dreaded lay over. Five years ago and now im searching the twenties For old photographs about the way I played. My heart stops and excepts the choices I made. Because the future now the preseant is grey like a grave. I still dream of film and simpler days. Like it was still ambitious When I see trombones sliding and clarinets deciding What reed made the sound of jazz.
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 11:31 PM UTC
My old Brass
All night I head inside rain water. Getting back the women I failed. My heavy jacket feels like stray cats. Then A garbage can upon the street. Becomes some other racoons ocean dream. He opens the door in ring tailed underwear. And forgets about the skunk waiting Under the bushes ontop of spongy beardes of moss. The business isnt worth the trouble For me against the passion to find Another way inside a house of plastic Bins. But mine is wooden and strong and Ill be able To dry my arms and go another day Of traveling through the pools Of open water. And singing here comes the rain again. Let it fall again and forever until the streets Dry in clouds of ambitious steam.
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Dec 1, 2013
Dec 1, 2013 at 6:08 AM UTC
Going home on a rainy nite
Bigfoots a jack *** Strange He pured us both Whiskey. We talked about darwin, And Goodals new book. But now hes trying to **** me! Vegitaraian? We thought he did. But now hes trying to **** me. Its getting dark I cant smell the cave anymore. His brown face sounded like a Blender. I was just another elk With them I slept Like white bones.
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Nov 27, 2013
Nov 27, 2013 at 5:32 PM UTC
Big Foots a Jack ***
Why care about the coronglais (English Horns) music. Of course the brass I speak of is woodwind. Masters of sound are older then the Tux- Edos choking boughtie on my white neck. The pub next door never will hear opera The way a glass of hard ale fills me. All a reason to say hiphop is jazz. The old lady with scotch breath doesnt show Me how ice melts in her mouth like twelve octaves. On the concert halls roof cellos fall off the gutters Like drops of rain. The rare wood burns the hobos Metal warm fire and we finally walk with purpose.
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 6:44 PM UTC
Taboo towards classical music
shes sleeping And chrystal ssnow Floats to rest like me.
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Nov 16, 2013
Nov 16, 2013 at 1:43 AM UTC
Shes sleeping
I think of the waves Crashing into the **** The rocks are sturdy there In west port washington. And on the rocks A shorebird got closer To where I stood proud On the unmovable Pile of boulders. I could tell you This was it. But a star fish Exposed the air I breath In a moment of beauty. The waves flicker like lite bulbs. The split seconds are eons With out times way of saying Got ya now. You know How the you And ocean. Meet in the shores And die in the earth. How can the spirit of mythology Tell me the rocks where once human. And the boy told his mother you swollowed A pebble. He returned to free his uncles. They called him the stone boy. if I stand here for four days Ill break down like gravel in the grange.
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Nov 14, 2013
Nov 14, 2013 at 11:53 PM UTC
West Port Washington
Enupuph to throw away scores of iron shirts. How heavy do you think a cord of wood Weighs. Its exausting and pointless to be Acurate when time cost more then dollars. The head that hides me never alters the Way something alive has to die. Even Pine bleeds like pulp juice from the new sharp ax. All around my neihborhood im being Looked at by the trees when the wedge cracks through Why am I splitting through the years of storms. I hate hearing how alive my tree is. The pines point of view is much higher then mine.
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Nov 13, 2013
Nov 13, 2013 at 7:40 PM UTC
Splitting A Pine Tree
I wish henry didnt do the thoughts that he thought Was his suicide. I wish henry could talk. The point being henry is gone. Feels like the empty pit of an ocean poem. The empty walrus has a beard In it grows the bankers heart And the crooks on wall street. My father wasnt what destroyed The crazy heart of a thurough poet. Im to normal to feel the big haul Of the god of henry. But never the stinking less. The god that kills poets. The god who always comes back for more. If the posh bar in new york closed Henry would of went next door. Henry would of been around A little more to know where he sits In the book store. The ****** way to be perfect Was the nastiest game in Snowy Michigan. There ought to be fences on that bridge. But he would of just climbed over. Mr. Bones what made henry do it. Mr. Bones what made henry Killed henry like the banker And the revolver from Oaklahoma. Empty is every ship returning home. Henry isnt on the list of survivors stranded In the aftermath. Captain henry stayed on board.
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Nov 13, 2013
Nov 13, 2013 at 3:09 PM UTC
Henry