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Dove
A dove dropped into my life last night, hopeful and honest, and I decided that I’d rather be in love, than be a liar. I’ve seen you in my dreams, serene soulmate, elusive end of my tempestuous tale, that has evaded my eyes until now. I’m flying, in lucky, lovesick skies.
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Candy From A Stranger
Her dandy, dazed gaze was so disarming,mired in my haunted bliss,and all the promises that I had made her,she was still so surprising,scorching the earth with a smirk on her lips and a cold can of demons in her delicate hand.She tasted like danger,candy from a stranger,the kind of love that God gives out to…
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Beside Myself, Beside The Beach
My love took me on a cruise to the moon, cool girls in the cosmos, and as usual, I am cursed to cascade before her, born damned, the devil’s daughter, never able to resist the rich taste of romance and unbridled passion. I am a slave to my seductress, simping, primping my hair and painting…
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Eyes In The Portrait
There’s a new ghost in my gallery,peering from the frames of all my paintings,her stare, so accusatory,as she watches me with my wife’s soft hair,twirled around troubled fingertips,lips lost in a lullaby that lasts all night,ignorant of the rising sun and the expectation for a woman’s place to be in the kitchen, rather than underneath…
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Rock and Roll
My rock and roll iconoclast, clasped tight in my cherry embrace, homecoming Queen with the devil’s flowers around her wrist, and I miss her when she splits to go buy me a drink, cheap cider, and a blossoming kiss when she returns from the bar, like the prodigal daughter.