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 Dec 2023 Andrew Crawford
B
Don't think I'll go on, but I can
my mother is kicking me out
and I've never had a plan.
Fizzled out with your opening
crushed like a soda pop can
so insecure, pushed you away
because you know just who I am.

On such a breathless downward spiral
and I think I'll stay here a while.
baggy shirts and sunken eyes
has become my style.
I'm a muddled, mangy mess, no surprise
I think I'll just stay a child
be soft in my stride
for just a little while
until I learn to get by.
 Dec 2023 Andrew Crawford
B
Artist
 Dec 2023 Andrew Crawford
B
I wonder if you know that you're my muse
so inspired by your torturous beauty
the way you erupt and emotionally bruise
that deep velvet burgundy
over plain flesh I will always choose.
You are the worst thing I have ever met
and I love you
put a ring on your finger, take you forever
I am an artist, it's what I do.
 Dec 2023 Andrew Crawford
B
Beautiful queen of the sky
Andromeda
stars buried in your eye.
How did you learn to get by,
only the moon to befriend
is he really so great a guy?

I try to be lonely too
be content with
just a lovely view.
It's all still nothing new
I'm growing tired
of my own company too
and the bitter coffee that I brew.

So done with waking
to the somber dark.
My misfortune, I'm mistaking
for some philosophical spark.
Still the dawn is not breaking
and I'm after blood like a ravenous shark
this silence, I am taking
- goodbye -
into the still night, I must embark.
Life wears me out with its
twists and turns, and
hairpin curves.
I keep waiting for a
long, peaceful stretch
of highway, bathed in
the rising sun.
A golden wheatfield to
to the left, a moss covered
pond with dragonflies to
the right.
The road turns to gravel,
and climbs rapidly uphill.
There are signs along the
way that promise the world.
The road gradually turns
to dirt, and ultimately
disappears.
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