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Jul 2018
What hasΒ Deutoronomy got to do with me?
I'm with Ahab and not on the plains of Moab
listening to the tales of an old man

and no one escapes the fate that waits for them.

The promised land was an empty promise
a device that moved those men
and
the whale that Ahab sailed for,
was I believe an allegory
because we all know crocodiles
tick.

I'll either hotwire today and drive it
away or they'll come and take me
away,
but in the final analysis
when
paralysis grips your tongue
you will do what has to be done
or you'll end up with Ahab or
with Moses on the plains of Moab.

If you're in the vicinity
drop by and visit me
forget Deutoronomy,

I miss you
like you'll never know
John Edward Smallshaw
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John Edward Smallshaw  68/Here and now
(68/Here and now)   
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