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Remembrance for a great man is this.
The newsies are pitching pennies.
And on the copper disk is the man's face.
Dead lover of boys, what do you ask for now?
jeffrey robin May 2013
Who is it?
..
What is he doing?
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Crouched
Hidden
In the shadows of the doorway?
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Should I answer!
Should I tell you
Need I make you find out
For yourself?
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(Little child
In my arms!
..
I am here
To shelter you)
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Even New York City
Sometimes might seem
A very ordinary place
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--
All the newsies from 1935
Are still alive
In the tunnels of Hell's Kitchen
Though the trains are gone
__
(And I
Too
Am
Always
Around somewhere)
--
You too
Shall never die

Never
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Live righteously!
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The story shall linger
Forever
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(We are now in:

REVOLUTION TIME!)
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--
..
We

(Who never die)
..
Linger forever

Soft!
Slow!
Easy!
--
We enter our
Eternal story

We stand
Forever
--
The story

Thru all turnings
Thru all spinnings
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--
Crouching in doorways
Hidden by shadows

Yes!
Yes!

Now we

See we are seen
jeffrey robin Dec 2015
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On the train at the midnight hour

Pressed against the window

Peering thru the dark


••


Oh yeah // there you are !


The gentle maiden in the field


The song of love never ending

••

She sees !


Within the great darkness


The old hotel in the rain


••


The naked girl  is bathing in the

Grace of  the waterfall

Dreaming of New York City

the newsies sleeping in the alleyways

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Ain't no time but the wrong time

If you love me you shall never suffer again

Reading the LETTERS

Ah CREATION !

Who knew !!!!!

Who knew !!!!!
.
Lawrence Hall Jan 2018
We’re All Icons Now

Is there anything left that isn’t iconic?
Each sports hero, actress, and tummy-tonic

Now let The People say “iconic”

Each recipe and coffee colonic
And every writer said to be Byronic

And let the reviewer chant “iconic”

Famous lovers, ****** or platonic
Mountains and islands, and plates tectonic

And let The Newsies type “iconic”

Animals natural or bionic
All weather systems, calm or cyclonic

And let Mr. Meteor cry “iconic!”

Every magazine is stuffed with “iconic”
Which any Byzantine would find ironic

And let the Romans cry “three dimensions!”

Wait...dimensions…declensions…these don’t rhyme with iconic…

Oh, and don’t forget that for every reviewer every writer weaves that same old  layered tapestry of…something or other

And when you go home tonight just be sure to hug your children
JV Beaupre Jun 2022
at the outdoor bar on the beach
And all the golf carts gather around.
Some Elvis and a few more beers
No millennials until sundown.

In that little deuce coupe,
the Beach Boys run around,
Surfer girl's a Pasadena lady,
And surf boards are all aground.

Now I long for yesterday
When oldies were the craze.
There goes the sun and I say,
Hey Jude, here's to better days.

I ride back to the boonies,
thinking when oldies were newsies.
Wake up little Suzie,
we gotta go home
Willow Dec 2024
You say you got no use for moonlight,
But darling, that’s not true
Sometimes the moon is the only thing,
Keeping you company on long nights,
After the headline fails to feed you.
You claim you don’t need no sappy poetry,
But then how come you write it in your head,
Dreaming of Santa Fe?
Santa Fe was your love at first sight,
Dreaming of a future far away.
That is, until you saw her.
Sitting in the shadowed glow,
Of stage lights down beneath you.
Those things fly out of your head,
And you start anew.
‘Cause those things were stupid anyways.
Based off of the song "I never planned on you/Don't come A-Knockin'" from Newsies on Broadway

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