Gil Tee Poems

Would you deny me thrice?
Rather than sacrifice
Your image in men's eyes
Would you keep telling lies?
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I've abridged this. Yes, I know - not enough!


Leaving on a northbound bus I caught sight of you
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If it sounds country, man, that's what it is; it's a country song. (Kris Kristofferson)


I'm going to Nashville
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Daddy says he don't believe in God,
But he could have been a Christian, if that doesn't sound too odd.
Daddy says he might have been, but the ones who ain't forgiven him
All seem to be Christians, and he wonders what these Christians mean by love.
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There's a fundamental question that I try not to forget
Formulated long ago, and it still hasn't been answered yet.
Well, it makes me feel humble, it makes me feel sad,
It makes me feel guilty for all the good things that I've had;
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Why do you tarry,
Oh! you Midwives of Death?

I am weary
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She has hair as black as sin
As far as I remember
Her eyes are pools I might drown in
As dark as deep December.
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Girl why don’t you shoot me? ‘Cause I don’t know what to say.
I’m so tongue-tied by your beauty, I’m dumbstruck every day
On account of being near you, and the sight of your bronze thighs,
An inch or three above the knee, reduces me to sighs.
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That old moon keeps shining down
Upon this troubled world;
Generations come and go
And a new flag is unfurled,
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In memory of Steve Norton, the archetypal Mr Nice Guy, whose sudden and unexpected death on 11 May 2009 is a source of much sorrow and sadness amongst those who had the privilege to have known him.


Had a phone call from an old friend with the news last night
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