Charlie F. Kane Poems

I am the only sane one
In a mad, mad world?
Or am I mad and
Everybody else sane?
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I try to be like David Bowie,
But I just don’t have that guy’s style
I try to be like John Lennon,
But I just don’t have his voice.
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Wake up for the dawn chorus
And the cold rain of the shower.
Then you move on to
A piece of burnt toast,
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Wake up in the morning
To the sound of a familiar voice.
In the car wherever you’re going,
The sounds from the radio keep you moving.
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On this day we celebrate love.
We celebrate that indefinable feeling
We call ‘love’.
We celebrate love,
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Southern man,
When you gonna understand?
Southern man,
Don’t you know it doesn’t have to be this way?
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Sometimes life goes
By so fast,
You can forget to stop
And take it all in,
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When I lie upon my deathbed,
Will I brood on wasted time?
Will I lie and think about all the
Things I have not done?
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The world’s going to Hell.
Satan lets all the sinners win,
He’s laughing down in Hell,
As the damned roll on in.
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This poem is only one part of 'Never Again? - An Anti-War Poem Cycle'

The deep black mud of the Somme
Was only highlighted
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