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The cabbie who took me and my ma from hospital to home
Straight away started in with a tale all alone
Out of a clear blue sky
Struck in the head
And then by lightning
Boiled his innards
Popped his bones
Broke his head
Did the damage you might imagine
He was dead for awhile
Met his grandparents and God
They played Snap they were all smiles
Until it was deemed time for him to come back
He's wrote a book called
LIGHTNING MAN
I suggest you read it
It's remarkable
He's just doing whatever he can.
i'm sitting in a corner,
blue as a flower,
saying a prayer.

that room

I ve written
about that room, above the bar, often.
that there were shadows,
no windows,
but I really don't remember?
window, no window?

but whenever i tried to look up
there was the angry sky
chasing hope around narrow streets          

and those bits and ripples
of rain long asleep

casting shadows across
windows distant,
down my window pane.

do you ever think of me?

(written while sitting in a dark room
starring into a rain splashed window).
I will build a shrine and worship you.
I will speak of you with the sweetest sound.
I will lay next to you and kiss you goodnight.
I will revolve around you like I'm your satellite.
I will stay by your side, even if my life falls apart.
I will think of you whenever i look at the moon.
I will shine for you during your darkest days.
I will remember every touch and every gaze.
I will write about us till the end of time.
Streetlights through our silhouettes like crashing waves.
Witnessing the shrinking night beside each other.
All the things we could discuss,
but the ecstasy of stillness subdue us.

It's like we're stuck together
between reverie and reality.

As I look at you, I wish my next breath is my last,
so I won't have to surrender my gaze to the past.
So I can escape the transience.
I wish the time stretched, turning this night endless.
"what will they think?"- the
thought i had the most in my
entire existence.
Stick a knife in the dawn.
Twist the peonies
into puppets.
Put the goldfish on
the counter and feed
it cereal.
Mice cast shadows as
big as elephants on
the yellow walls of
my heart.
Dance a slow waltz with
the philodendron.
Dig up
Mozart
Bach, and
Wagner.
Make a chocolate cake.
Read me, TS Eliot, and
sing old hymns.

**** everything.
Mom and Dad have died.
Here's a link to my YouTube channel where I read from my recently published books.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k5NY8ZMx3I

www.thomaswcase.com
I always wonder
how things look
from your side—

If the light bends softer
through your windows
if sorrow
sits quieter in your chest
unbothered—
cooling
on the windowsill
of a mad house.

You see the world
like a fingertip
tracing fog on glass—
not to erase
but to understand
what’s underneath.

You are someone
who makes
even the broken
shine differently—
for me
you are on the side
no one else
can reach.
A story unfolds in her eyes,
the little runaway recites,
depth in an iris of secrets,
halcyon days and sapphire nights.

Release the words dearest youngling,
bleed the emotions you regale,
let the narrative entice time,
weep the history of your tale.

She blinks and the page slowly turns,
another chapter taking shape.
The story unfolds in her eyes
and lids close as she seeks escape.
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