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My Old SchoolCrippled by shadows, wait in the dusk for night
Playground ghosts move the swings gently
Trees bow their heads and sigh goodbyes
This is how it is, here, now

Pale moonlight rises to show nothing new
Its been this way for so long, far too long
Pinebranch fingertips drop needles, stars twinkle
The moon turns its attention to the tides

Old bricks, overgrown with weeds, murmur
amongst themselves about children now old
Nightbirds keep reverently quiet and dream
This is how it is, here, now
HomePink flamingos and garden gnomes, bright sun, long shadows across the lawn
A screen door slams and a fly buzzes in, through my ear into my brain

Jesus Christ walking across a puddle, something in my sweet tea, minds a muddle
A car horn honks and a mother yells, "Y'all come get these groceries!"

The TV's on a soap about lost love-bones, a queen sits in my dad's chair, fizzled and stoned
Light a Newport and try to forget the static on channel Z

Help me Rhonda my hat-heads flaking off, the dust on the dresser grown fat and soft
Who'll fry the bacon when I'm gone? Who'll remember this day?
Soul JuiceSqueeze out the last drops in glorious color
The rind is mashed, rotten, ruined
But the juice is beautiful

When I dream of myself, or others, we're
always in our prime

and beautiful.
A Blazing HatA blazing hat, a tattooed heart, he walks through the crowd alone
Today was going to be a good day, but now the sky is green
and everyone is speaking a new language

Whitebone orb over the merriment, his clothing reeks of sadness
Too late for the releasing of doves, or for happy farewells
when strangers wear blinders and greet shadows

The newest tattoo reads "poet", which may as well read "isolation"
The simmering stew of vaguely familiar faces in plots of earth
waiting for burial, or arrival, or knowledge

These are the days of broken-down carnivals and fly-away balloons
The days when your face is not in the crowd, not anywhere at al
Cartoon SkyCartoon sky, fold and tear along the edges, see whats
beneath the carnival atmosphere, the loopy clouds
and finger-painted sun
Behind the balloons and love letters and candy apples
Beneath the everyone's-a-winner lies
There is
Tar-black night, cold and carnivorous, stars waiting
to swallow your dreams whole
Preying monsters, from the backwoods of consciousness
Cracked plaster iron-bed institutional rooms, under
dim moonlight and swinging bulbs
This is
the never-ending night of life, unpainted, unadorned
Beyond the illusions painted on by windmill minds
Cold, isolated, too real to comprehend without
the cartoon sky and paste-on

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*fractalhead Apr 3, 2013
very good
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*dimajaber Mar 26, 2013  Professional General Artist
feature: [link]
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*honeytofla Jul 12, 2011
it's too sad.. the grey will win , sun will vanish :O
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=Bark Jul 12, 2011   Writer
but it always comes back :)
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*honeytofla Jul 13, 2011
:)
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Mood: Artistic *merearthling Jul 9, 2011
fascinating work
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=Bark Jul 9, 2011   Writer
Thank you very much!
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~lconverse May 31, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
wow, i really like this! i thought it was a collage o physical media at first.
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=Bark May 31, 2011   Writer
Thank you!
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*dofaust May 22, 2011
skulls and Spring.... quite a juxtaposition... I must ponder that....
A magnificent work, though.
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