Carl Roussell Poems

Please put away your brush and your whitewash.
Please don't cover it or take it away.
Don't rewrite it with political floss;
the way for public opinion to sway
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I read the paper, hope for news of you.
Check the classifieds and comics with care
to find not one word, one mention, of you.
Now the obits come last, but you're not there.
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Lost in thought, I am disoriented
at the sight of you, at the sound of you.
"Dim the light, turn down the volume" I said.
Never to return to the home where you
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I hoped
for better times
when we were together.
Put time in your pipe and smoke it.
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I put on a brave face
but I'm losing my place.
I'm so tired of lying.
Would you feel diff'rently
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One side
Says they are right.
One side says they are wrong.
See each side as the other's they;
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Do you have something you can believe in?
That something that might give you life
A sense of purpose greater than just
Seeing the end of each day?
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In you this need to tell
Of heroes, demons fell,
Of true love inside one spark.
The muse in you will tell when
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Hello my dear friend,
Though life has been quite busy
It's good to see you.
To spend a moment with you
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Once,
Then twice,
Now a third.
Keep on going!
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