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Cana Feb 2018
He didn’t look at me when he asked
Have you ever seen a Costa Rican rose?
Smoke swirled in blue wafts about his head.
Cut by curt gesture and sharp regret
The reds are deep like rubies by firelight.
The greens are wishful and bright.
Thorns to break a mans heart and poison his mind.

It sparked a journey, a three hour flight and a four hour drive.
It was naught but a painted ****.
Edward Coles Apr 2014
I have suffered through this awkward silence,
and barely lived through all of these weekends
of pouring drinks to quench this thirsty city;
they laugh with me, but none of them are friends.

They pollute their dreams with future blueprints,
a formula to manage all their bills;
some childhood land turned into a car park,
and all of their memories that soon will.

I'm planning to execute a kidnap,
I know it's gonna be the perfect crime,
as I sing to the hearts of the lonely:
that you're not alone, oh now, you are mine.

Oh, I'm tired of working for a pay-cheque,
I think I shall start howling at the moon;
now all I've got is my superstition,
and all my friends that grew up far too soon.

And, if you come to see me in the morning,
I can't promise that I'll be there at all.
I'm packing bags, heading to Costa Rica;
I'm standing up for the years I have crawled.
c

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