Frank Bana Poems

All because of you
I cannot wear white T-shirts
Or play Hey Jude
And other songs of '68
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I got to know you well today
Whether you shined
Whether it rained
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Yes I know a man
Who with his quiet magic hand
Can turn a room of quarrelsome heads
Snarling for each other in self-regard
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The train is his prison
metal grey funnel passengers
contend for seats and dignity
Alpha males, pole mountaineers
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Each little Child a queen or a king
learning to reach for the bright blue sky
In every child moment, you more become
the owner of dreams, the holder of light.
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Don't be alarmed this night, my Love,
I just needed some time on my own
I needed to know how the desert looked
After the shy summer rains had fallen
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Set on my hands the gift of silence
Lift the pressure and pain of my hips
Trace your ice on my aching shoulders
Then draw the heat from my frozen lips
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A thousand and ten pages
Of Allen Ginsberg's writings
Bound in heavy solitude, squat beside the bed
The window sheets are white, Leonard Cohen's monotone
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Let us unify in search and experience
Let us not be fragmented by the fragmentation of experience
In our modern century
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Prednisone, Deltazone
Coumadine, Compazine
Bactrim, Cytoxin
VP 16
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