Can someone
Turn the movie off
Memories
They just keep playing

Reruns and repeats
Regrets but
Never the laughter
Never them

Turn the movie off
Tonight and
Let me alone so
I can rest.

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I was a dime-store
Cashier’n in a bad side of town
Just waitin’ for her
To walk in and take it all.

She waved a big smile
Instead of a forty-five
I said yes ma’am and quickly
Handed her my heart

She offered her hand
I couldn’t really say no
We walked out, grinning
Into the night, into life


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Hang me out to dry
Done this once or twice
Still you make me sigh
Everything's nice

We met at a gallery,
A bar, who knows
All this goes to show
I'm hanging, I'm waiting

You tell me not to call
Then you're sitting at my bar
Open seat next to you
Favorite drink already poured

Hey baby, you say
Come here often?
We laugh, cheek to cheek
Our glasses clink

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We roll by
Giving all
We got to
Get by and

We might be
Driving a
Taurus or
Fiesta
Maybe a
Pickup truck
Or shiny
Kia thing

We will rage
Sometimes by
Our dying
Kitchen light
Not too loud
Can't lose our
Jobs because
Our babies
Need healthcare

© Zane Safrit, 2017

Senesence and not
pubescence is where
We’ll end up someday
raddled and addled

Our Secrets tattled
by strangers who know
Nothing, and yet speak
as experts on us

Our crypts will be files
the size of a gig,
Sold  on a thumbdrive
for the highest price


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Watched you walk
Down the aisle last night
Shiny, bright and white
Starbursts trailing

Turned away, no one saw
Wiped on a smile
Clapped and laughed
At the right times

Faded out the door
Before the last 'I do'
No one saw me
No one needed to

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None of them remember,
None of them care,
To them I’m just
A thin line of air.

A line faded
Was it ever there
Can’t remember
Don't really care

How did we know him
Did we know him
I guess not
He left no impression

A line in air
Is never remembered
Nobody noticed
Nobody cared.

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Dream on, he sang
Dream on, Dream on
Just keep dreaming
Always liked the song

Some days it’s like
stirring around
old, cold ashes
the fire gone now

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If you were me
Would you care
Would you smile
All the while

If I were you
Could I laugh
Could I forgive
Say it’s okay

Let’s begin again
You and I and
I as you and
You as I and

See the world as you
See it as me
If you were me
And I were you

If I was god
Would the children die
Would their mothers cry
And their fathers rage
If god was me
Would he forgive you
Draw you to his/my chest
Hold you and breathe

But I am God
And so you are
We’re created in his/her image.

So let’s laugh together
I can forgive
and hold you and
inhale your essence

The children then
can stop dying
their mothers crying
their fathers raging

We can all laugh
and hug each other
and breathe in all
that we are and

All that we could be
Because I am
you and you are
me. God created
us, we see.



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Someone took my laptop
And my smartphone too
What kinda world when
they do that to you

No one needs to steal her
she just walked away
Someone else buying her
pretty things today

Now I am happy too
here writing all day
but please would you
tell her, tell her, okay?

Things are changing
Can you hang on
Things are changing
Bang a gong

Write it on my headstone
Things were changing
And he held on
Bang a gong

Ain’t the first
Won’t be the last
Things are changing
They can kiss my ***

Write it on my headstone
Write it in the sky
Things are changing
I’m holding on

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Would I, could I, should I
Seems like I should
But then again, maybe I shouldn’t
Time and tide, here I sit

If she looks good, what’m I missing
And if she don’t, maybe maybe what
A squint, a stare, a sideways glance
But first a search on Google or LinkedIn

To call or not, to speak or not
No, now it’s to swipe, left or right is how
So we flicker past each other
Glittering arrays of possibilities

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Your poems are always sad,
she said
They always start out happy
I said
And then what happens
she asked
The past catches up
I said

But I am your true north
she said
Yes, you are. Keep shining


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You said that you loved me
Then where did you  go?
I'm sitting here wondering
Just how would I know.

We loved and we laughed
And we both wanted more
I finished my shower.
While you walked out the door

I paid all your bills
And climbed all your hills
So baby won't you tell me
What I did so **** wrong

Maybe that's the real problem
But it wasn't for me.
Maybe all you really wanted
Was just to be free.

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It must be nice
to have and to hold
And be so bold
to dream us twice

It must be nice
to see us tomorrow
As we see us today
maybe better, who knows

It must be nice
us tomorrow
Like us today
who knows they say.

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When I die
Well they may not even notice
I don't think they know my number now.  
If they don't just let 'em alone
I'm happy
Happier than I've ever been

Iowa was my home for so long
Couldn't find a better place to live
But all good things must end sometime
any how
I'm on my way to heaven, who knows
if it's there.

© Zane Safrit -  2018 - All Rights Reserved

You know it's time to go
when your world is one big
Nancy Reagan and it
just says no. No. No. No

No to love
No to jobs
No to Hi's
No to byes

You walk in a
parallel universe
watching, waving
as they and theirs go by

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