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Jul 2013
If I wanted to
I would
would you?
but it doesn't do to want or ache so I take a lesson from the book which catches me on its hook of quotes and I take notes.
1 do not need
2 do not seed the path from which there is no return
3 burn the book

Look we're all grown up and know the score and old men have done it all before so there's nothing new.
but
I would
would you?

See
we've got to try
got to spread the wings and fly
and die a little every day
if just to hear you laugh and say
'I will
will you'?
and sometimes it does to do and need
and every deed that goes undone is one more loss added to the sum of all the loss.
We can't gloss over that which we miss
the paint's not made that would cover that and this is true.
So I will
will you?.which is just a matter of fact
no going all around the houses just a statement of a meaning
seemingly innocuous
and fortuitous in its results
resulting in a union
though not religious in the sense of some communion
more like a meeting of two.wrapped in soft and tender slender limbs and who said,'England swings'?
they knew what was on the menu
it was just that the venue kept on changing and the faces that would rearrange into one more 'will you' it was strange
but I can't complain
nor explain the reasons why I settled down into a life,  in a quiet town with quiet ladies and bingo halls and someone calls to me,
'come play'
but it was just an echo from another yesterday
and as I lay out in the Sun
where what began,begun and ends I send my love to all I knew
just to say
I did
did you?
John Edward Smallshaw
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John Edward Smallshaw  68/Here and now
(68/Here and now)   
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