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William J Donovan
76/M/New Bern, NC
My poems are heartbeats yearning to be lyrics to music.
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William J Donovan
William J Donovan
May 2024
How to Live a Life
If I knew how to live a life
my daughter would talk to me.
She left me dead like a ghost.
Neither of us can actually be
the best of ourselves the most
forgiving. Please set us free.
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William J Donovan
May 2024
Drunk as a Skunk
I love everyone.
Hate has no room here.
The world is full of sun.
Hide the hidden fear.
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William J Donovan
May 2024
Judas Beast
Slit a throat
stab a heart
sacrifice a goat
just do your part
kiss Christ's cheek
mark of the beast
just don't be weak
celebrate the feast.
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William J Donovan
May 2024
Love is Slippery
Love is slippery full of lies.
I hear promises feel your heat
seduction into my secret garden.
Feast on my sacred ****** treat.
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William J Donovan
May 2024
I'll Save Your Life
You drank too much sorrow
choke in sleep by tomorrow
overnight we had a fight
you took your final flight.
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William J Donovan
May 2024
Dear, Katie
Is there anything I can do
to fix the broken to you?
I always loved you most
you were the first ghost.
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William J Donovan
May 2024
Burial
The body is buried
the life lived carried
to dumpster on a street
trash the shell's defeat.
Finally forever gone is brutal to accept.
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