james-banks-worsham
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Old Country Song
Cold and lonely sights like these / Scare and push me toward the ****** / Of nights I knew so well when I was young
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Want
The need like a scream / Rings in and rattles out the skull / Echoing down the spine
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Laughing Ghouls
Laughing ghouls walk among us / Wearing masks of men / Their hollow eyes betray their guise
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Perspective of Beauty
I like haunting sights / Their beauty lingers with you / Their pale form delights
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Down South
Channel South. / The Mississippi fold / Whipped midnight dust
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Sixty Second Stream of Consciousness
The beat down, down trodden / Beatific, angelic hooligans / On the page, on the road
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Tin Girl
A pitch black blanket of unwound strands / Lays splayed before broken words in impotent rage / Breathing ragged against a winter window
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Features of Her Face
Her skin is a smooth / European pale / Spent in the shadows of rugged mountains
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Bad Timing
A kiss too late that left my lips / And passed to you with a gentle press / As you glided by.
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Old Soul as Errant Knight
The battle is not won or lost / But I am finished with it / Sword hanging limp in hand
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